Watchdog stops short of endorsing opposition party claim that election was 'stolen'
Georgian, EU and Ukrainian national flags hangs at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Tbilisi, Georgia Responding to Saturday’s polls, a joint observation mission made up of OSCE, Council of Europe, Nato and EU parliament officials levelled criticism at the ruling Georgian Dream Party over documented abuses, but stopped short of endorsing the opposition’s claims the vote had been stolen.
Yesterday’s vote unfolded as a bitter and at times bloody showdown played out between Georgia’s Kremlin-leaning, populist government and the country’s historically fractured and fractious pro-Western opposition groups. “All the irregularities – vote buying, violence, confiscation of ID cards – these were present in Tbilisi too, but still lost there despite the enormous pressure, meaning they had to balance this out with results in the provinces no democracy could possibly recognise,” Kandelaki toldis now in the process of securing a major geopolitical victory in Georgia,” he added, taking aim at “sleepwalking Western bureaucrats” for what he perceives as not paying sufficient attention to recent political...
Exit polls on Saturday initially yielded wildly divergent results, prompting bizarre scenes of simultaneous victory celebrations from both the ruling party and among various opposition groups, who have lately set aside long-running rifts to form an assortment of anti-government coalitions committed to safeguarding Georgia’s prospects for future EuroAtlantic integration.
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