EU warns Tbilisi of risks to membership path and US decries ‘democratic backsliding’
president Salome Zourabichvili rejected a request from prosecutors to answer questions about her allegations that the ruling party rigged Saturday’s parliamentary elections, as thesaid it was “deeply alarmed” by threats to democracy in the Black Sea state and Brussels warned that its current course “jeopardises its
The CEC has announced a partial recount of votes but the opposition and Ms Zourabichvili say the commission is a tool of the government; they want an independent inquiry and a full rerun of the election under international oversight. Opposition leaders backed Ms Zourabichvili, and claimed that the prosecutor’s office, like the CEC, is controlled by Georgian Dream, which has ruled since 2012.
Georgian Dream says it wants the country to join the EU, but its actions and rhetoric have opened a rift with Brussels that has widened since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Tbilisi refuses to join western sanctions on Moscow, and claims a shadowy “global party of war” is trying to drag it into conflict with the Kremlin.
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