Let’s not accept the preliminary results of this rigged election – announced on Saturday night, Tina Bokusava, the leader of the opposition, the president of the United National Movement (Natsebi), that her group is disputing the official numbers of the parliamentary election held in Georgia on Saturday.
Reported by the Central Election Commission of Georgia preliminary final result according to the ruling pro-Russian Álom Grúz (Kotsebi) won the election with 52.99 percent of the votes ahead of the opposition bloc, whose parties won a total of 38.4 percent of the votes, except that the exit polls of several pollsters had previously predicted an opposition victory.
Earlier, for this reason, Kotsebi and the opposition party alliance gathered around Natsebi also declared themselves the winners, while the exit poll of Imedi TV, close to Kotsebi, clearly declared the pro-Russian group of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakidze and the ex-government leader Bidzina Ivanishvili as the winners with 56 percent of the votes. according to two other channels, Formula TV and Mtavari Arkhi TV, the opposition known as supporters of EU integration won the contest. According to Formula TV, the opposition led by Natsebi has 52 percent of the votes, Kotsebi has only 42 percent of the votes, and according to Mtavari Arkhi TV, the opposition won the parliamentary election with a ratio of 48 to 41 percent.
Besides Natsebi, the liberal Coalition for Change (11.2%, 197,619 votes), the ideologically eclectic Strong Georgia (9.02%, 159,306 votes) alliance and for Georgia (8.22%, 145,205 votes) started with a chance to cross the five percent entrance threshold in the 150-member Tbilisi legislature. The participation rate stood at 58.96 percent, that is, 2,060,412 people decided the fate of the Caucasian country of almost four million people. Like Tina Bokusava, Nika Gvaramia, one of the co-chairs of the Coalition for Change, nominated only with the number 4 in Georgia, also rejected the preliminary election results.
Everyone saw the contest as Georgia’s choice between East and West, Russia or the European Union. Bidzina Ivanishvili – who is still the honorary president of Kotsebi – said that it is a rare occasion worldwide for a party to remain in power “in such difficult circumstances”, Tina Bokusava, the head of Natsebi, celebrated before the announcement of the official partial results that Georgia’s European future had won in the parliamentary election.
By the way, the opposition bloc operates under the auspices of President Salome Zuraibisvili, who tweeted two hours ago that “European Georgia” won by 52 percent despite the attempted election fraud, even without the votes of the diaspora.
It is not clear what difficult conditions Bidzina Ivanishvili had in mind, but it is certain that his party creates difficult conditions for those who want to live freely. A sign of this was the two laws that were recently adopted on the Russian model. One was about the registration of NGOs and media receiving foreign funding as “foreign agents”. The other bans same-sex couples from marrying, makes it impossible for them to adopt children, limits gender-affirming treatments and prohibits changing gender in official documents. In addition, the law banishes Pride events to illegality, prohibits the support of LGBTQ people in the media, and subjects them to censorship in films and literature. Due to the former, the EU interrupted Georgia’s EU accession negotiations and withdrew 121 million euros of aid from the country, and the United States imposed sanctions against a number of government leaders.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hastily congratulated the Kotsebins on the X, even when exit poll surveys that directly contradicted each other came to light about the order of finishers in the competition. Because of this, X added several reader comments to his message.
Source: nepszava.hu
