The Georgian president, Salomé Zourabichvili, breaking with the government, denounced a sophisticated system of fraud.
At the beginning of November, a polling institute that followed the vote and an organization of electoral observers declared that analysis of the results suggested widespread fraud.
The fate of the Georgians sealed, the European dream fades away
Washington and Brussels, who were concerned about “irregularities”, requested investigations.
After the election, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, on the contrary, considered that the elections had been “entirely fair”, before promising that “European integration” remained Tbilisi’s “main priority”.
Membership of the EU, like that of NATO, is included in the Georgian constitution.
The European Union had made this election a test in the perspective of this accession.
After the promulgation in the spring of a law “on foreign influence” inspired by Russian legislation which the Kremlin uses to muzzle civil society and the opposition, Brussels froze the accession process as a form of protest.
A law that restricts the rights of LGBT+ people is another reason for discord with the EU.
