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Georgian president calls for new elections to resolve political crisis

Georgia's President Salome Zourabichvili at a march in support of Georgia's EU candidacy in Tbilisi, Georgia, 9 December 2023. On Monday she called for a new election following last month's vote, which the opposition said was rigged in favour of the ruling party. © Shakh Aivazov/AP

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has called for new parliamentary elections in order to resolve a political crisis that followed last month's vote, which the opposition said was rigged in favour of the ruling party.

"We are now facing a crisis," Zurabishvili said Monday at a press conference, where she called for "new elections so that Georgia could have a legitimate parliament, a legitimate government".

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