Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev responded to current events in Georgia, referring to Salome Zourabichvili as a "puppet president."
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“The puppet president of Georgia refused to accept the election and went against the Constitution by calling for a coup. The standard practice in such cases is removal from office and arrest,” Medvedev wrote on Platform X.
At the beginning of October, the Speaker of Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, announced that the Georgian Dream would once again initiate the procedure for impeaching the President. According to Papuashvili, the new constitutional proposal will be submitted to the Constitutional Court of Georgia before the parliamentary elections. Once a violation of the constitution is confirmed, the new convocation of parliament will remove Salome Zourabichvili from office through impeachment, requiring at least 100 votes in the very first sessions.
As per data from the Central Election Commission of Georgia, Georgian Dream won the parliamentary elections, securing 53.92% of the votes. The legitimacy of this result is not recognized by the opposition parties that surpassed the electoral threshold, nor by President Salome Zourabichvili, who stated that the elections were entirely falsified and claimed that they had become "victims of a Russian special operation."
In preliminary reports, international observers highlighted several violations, including instances of voter intimidation and bribery, pressure on public officials, breaches of voting secrecy, and ballot stuffing.
The European Union has urged the Georgian authorities to quickly, transparently, and independently investigate and address these election violations. "That is a necessary step to re-building trust in the electoral process," said EU High Representative Josep Borrell.
The United States has joined the call for an investigation. As Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted, "international observers have not declared that the results are free and fair."
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