According to Valeri Chechelashvili, a political scientist, if the government fails to give a reasoned answer to the questions related to the elections, it is possible that international organizations and partner countries will not consider the elections as free and fair.
As he said in the "Resumé" program of "PalitraNews" while talking about the evaluations of the international community regarding the parliamentary elections, the results "can't even be arranged mathematically".
"We haven't heard the final estimates yet, but the interim estimates, which are from a number of countries and institutions, have rated the election as the worst in recent years. We have never heard such rigid and clear assessments. This is understandable, because the results of the elections cannot even be arranged mathematically. This is first-grade math, where even subtraction and addition are enough to make you realize that not everything is neatly organized, especially in regions. There are also many questions in big cities. New electronic technologies bring questions.
If the government fails to answer the questions and we don't hear substantiated answers, then we will receive even more rigid evaluations, I do not rule out that in the end these elections will not be considered as free and fair.
We are coming to a very bad chain of events. If the elections are deemed unfair, then these elections will not be recognized by international organizations and major global players, which means that we will go to the kind of regime that Belarus went into after Lukashenko overturned the results of the presidential election, where instead of 30%, 70% was written", said Chechelashvili.
As the political scientist said, in order for "Georgian Dream" to maintain cooperation with the European Union and the USA, there is an election investigation.
"As far as I know, Georgian Dream has such a philosophy: we will somehow get over it now, and then our cooperation with the EU and the USA will return to normal." It's an illusion, it won't end like this. The only chance to preserve these relationships is through an investigation, which will lead to reasoned conclusions and decisions. In this case, we will have the prospect of maintaining relations with international partners", said Chechelashvili.
According to Chechelashvili, the statement of the opposition that they will not contribute to the legitimacy of the parliament will not be enough if the opposition does not strengthen its conceptual approach with concrete actions.
"Now the main burden awaits the political parties, first of all, the four parties that, with the recognition of the "Georgian Dream" administration, got into the parliament. The general assessment that we will not contribute to the legitimacy of the parliament, I understand that this is an extreme measure, but the parties will have no other option if we receive such superficial answers regarding the request for an investigation as we hear from the ruling party. The opposition should strengthen its conceptual approach with concrete actions. This is what society expects," said Chechelashvili.