{"id":1812,"date":"2024-11-02T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2024-11-02T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T18:37:18","slug":"state-department-threatens-georgia-with-consequences-amid-rigged-election-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"State Department Threatens Georgia With &#8216;Consequences&#8217; Amid Rigged Election Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/foreign-policy\/state-department-threatens-georgia-with-consequences-amidst-claims-of-rigged-elections\/\"><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong><\/a> The State Department and the European Union are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/briefings\/department-press-briefing-october-28-2024\/\">demanding<\/a> Tbilisi\u00a0repeal \u201canti-democratic\u201d legislation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/27\/eu-urges-probe-into-georgias-vote-irregularities-pm-rejects-accusations\">investigate election \u201cirregularities\u201d<\/a>\u00a0respectively after the Georgian Dream Party won this weekend\u2019s parliamentary elections. Georgian leaders including Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and President Salome Zourabichvili are at odds, with Zourabichvili accusing Kobakhidze\u2019s party of winning a \u201ctotal fraud\u201d election.<\/h3>\n<p>Per the official tally, Georgian Dream won 54% of the vote, with multiple opposition parties earning between 3-11%. Georgian Dream will form the country\u2019s next government as they now hold a minimum of 90 out of the national parliament\u2019s 150 seats. However, <strong>four opposition parties which favor integration with the EU are refusing to participate in the new legislature<\/strong>,<strong> deeming the election stolen<\/strong>, and accusing the ruling party of pushing Georgia towards a pro-Russia direction. President Zourabichvili called for protests and vowed she will not recognize the plebiscite\u2019s results.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}