Several parties have refused to accept defeat in the parliamentary vote
Crowds of protesters have gathered in the center of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, after the country’s pro-Western opposition parties declared they are rejecting the official results of parliamentary elections, alleging irregularities.
Preliminary results of Sunday’s elections showed the ruling Georgian Dream party atracted almost 54% of the vote, while no opposition party got more than 11%.
President Salome Zourabichvili has denounced the election as illegitimate and called for protests in the streets to force the government to call a new election.
Calling for the protests, Zourabichvili had told Georgians that their votes had been “stolen” and accused Georgian Dream of attempting to “steal the future” of the country. She also claimed to have spoken with multiple foreign governments that are also refusing to recognize the election as legitimate.
