RFE: Thousands In Georgia Protest Alleged Election Fraud
TBILISI -- Thousands of people have protested in the Georgian capital against the election of the ruling party-backed candidate Salome Zurabishvili to the presidency, claiming fraud in last week’s runoff vote.
Holding national and EU flags, the protesters gathered on December 2 in front of the parliament building in the center of Tbilisi, calling for early parliamentary elections and a new election law.
French-born Zurabishvili, who had the backing of billionaire former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling Georgian Dream party, won 59.5 percent of the vote in the November 28 runoff, according to election authorities.
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Zurabishvili has publicly committed herself to the Western consensus against Russia, basically saying she'll do whatever Washington and Brussels tell her to do, so why would protesters against her be waving EU flags? It doesn't add up to me.
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