It is very important to maintain the policy of international non-recognition of the election results. These elections do not represent the free will of the Georgian people. The elections were falsified in many ways, using massive schemes, Tina Bokuchava, the chairperson of the "National Movement", stated this at a joint press conference with European parliamentarians in Strasbourg.
As Tina Bokuchava pointed out, it is necessary to include international investigative mechanisms, which will be used on the ground by the European Union in the territory of Georgia as a candidate country, in order to study the scale of fraud.
"Dear colleagues, friends, your support is very important for the Georgian people and our European course, which is certainly in question after the results of the parliamentary elections were stolen. This is not an election that was stolen only from a political party, but stolen from every Georgian citizen, and that is why the President of Georgia called it a Russian special operation, a way of waging a hybrid war against the Georgian people and their free will.
It is very important to maintain the policy of international non-recognition of the results of these elections. These elections do not represent the free will of the Georgian people. Elections were rigged in a number of ways, using massive schemes. The results should not be legitimately announced and the international community should stand by the Georgian people in their aspiration to express their own choices and have the freedom to preserve and gain the European future that is at stake. A number of pieces of evidence have been presented by political party watchers, and the evidence continues to mount.
In our opinion, it is necessary to involve international investigative mechanisms, which will be used on the ground by the European Union in the territory of Georgia, as a candidate country, in order to study the extent of fraud. We also call on the European Parliament, including the resolution that will be adopted on Thursday, to ensure that the mandate and composition of this investigative mission will be such as to influence and reveal the extent of the fraud that changed the election results," said Tina Bokuchava.
In addition, according to Tina Bokuchava, she hopes that President Zurabishvili will take strong political actions to pardon President Saakashvili, because "Georgia can not have a European future with political prisoners".
"I welcome the fact that in the draft of the resolution, which I have already looked at, there is a call to the Government of Georgia to release the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been a political prisoner for the fourth year, who is being prosecuted on political charges, and as we know, especially in this hall, Georgia can not have a European future with political prisoners. I especially hope that the President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili, who plays the main role in maintaining the European trajectory of Georgia, who is a kind of defender of Georgian aspirations towards democracy and European integration, will also take strong political actions to pardon President Saakashvili", Tina Bokuchava said.