Little consensus has emerged after Georgia’s elections, in which the ruling Georgian Dream declared themselves victors after gaining a majority. The opposition, bolstered by Western observers, claim the elections were unfair.
On Saturday, Georgia held parliamentary elections that were framed by both the ruling party and the opposition in stark terms: a choice between “war or peace” on one hand, and “Europe or Russia” on the other.
The ruling Georgian Dream declared themselves victorious after the country’s electoral commission said it had won 53.92 % of the votes — putting it in a comfortable majority.
The results have been bitterly disputed by opposition parties, some of which have gone so far as to claim the vote was manipulated.
Their concerns have been stood up by a group of Western observers, who raised concerns of a tense and pressured voting climate, voter intimidations and other irregularities.
Euronews spoke with different sides, including Maka Botchorishvili an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party and Reinhold Lopatka, an Austrian MEP and one of the election observers from the European parliament.
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