Recounting of Georgian parliamentary elections
reported by Mehr News Agency, citing Tass, the Central Election Commission of Georgia announced the recount of the votes of five randomly selected polling stations.
According to this institution, the regional election commissions have chosen five random branches and the recount will be done today (Tuesday).
Georgia, which declared independence after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, held its parliamentary elections on October 26 and for the first time with the unveiling of electronic ballot boxes.
According to the announcement of the Central Commission, the ruling party of this country, “Georgian Dream” won 53.9 percent of the votes and will form a government independently.
Despite passing the quorum (5 percent of votes) to enter the parliament, all four opposition parties called the election result unacceptable.
At the beginning of this year, the opposition coalition launched several large street demonstrations against the government; Demonstrations held in protest against the “Foreign Factors” bill.
Both the ruling party and the opposition coalition warned against possible interference in the elections, and the ruling party had announced that it was worried about US interference in the elections.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Kremlin, said yesterday about the Georgian elections, stressing the non-interference of Moscow in the internal affairs of Georgia, that agents of many European countries and institutions tried to affect the result of the Georgian elections.
