After a day of intensive consultations with opposition parties following the 26 October parliamentary elections, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili held a briefing in which she said she would not recognize the official election results. She thanked all the voters who voted for Georgia’s European future: “There were lots of you, you won in these elections …
Okay for people as confused as I was an hour ago.
She doesn’t caucus with either major party and is officially an independent. But she’s politically liberal. The pro Russia group is currently in control of the parliament and the pro EU group including her is calling bullshit on the elections.
She doesn’t have a ton of power though. They shifted a bunch of power to the parliament right before she took office. I’m not clear on what power she does or does not have in regards to elections to remedy this.