“This election cannot be recognized, because it is the recognition of Russia’s intrusion here, Georgia’s subordination to Russia,” Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili said.
"Nobody can take away Georgia's European future," she added.
"Nobody can take away Georgia's European future," she added.
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00:00Georgia's president said she did not recognize the results of this weekend's parliamentary
00:06vote, which election officials say was won by the ruling Georgian party, aimed at moving
00:12it off a path towards Europe, and called for Georgians to rally in Tbilisi to protest the
00:18results.
00:21Many Georgians viewed Saturday's vote as a referendum on the opportunity to join the
00:25EU, as Brussels had suspended Georgia's EU membership process indefinitely because of
00:31a Russian-style foreign influence law passed in June.
00:37The election campaign was dominated by foreign policy and marked by a bitter fight for votes
00:42and allegations of a smear campaign.
00:48European electoral observers said the election took place in a divisive environment marked
00:53by intimidation and incidents of vote-buying, double-voting and physical violence.