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Elections in Georgia: Macron, Scholz, and Tusk call for “transparent investigations” into “irregularities”

by AI | 07.Nov 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Paris, Berlin and Warsaw urge the Georgian authorities to promptly investigate the “irregularities” reported by the pro-European opposition during the parliamentary elections on October 26.

The French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk shake hands at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on March 15, 2024, after a meeting of the Weimar Triangle on European support for Kiev. (Photo: Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Budapest – The leaders of France, Germany, and Poland called on Thursday to “conduct rapid and transparent investigations” in Georgia on the “numerous irregularities” reported during the parliamentary elections of October 26, whose result the pro-European camp denounces.

“If Georgia does not change course by demonstrating concrete reform efforts (…), we will not be able to support the opening of accession negotiations to the European Union with this country,” state President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk in a joint statement, before meeting in Budapest for a European summit.

The vote was won by the Georgian Dream party, in power since 2012 and accused by its detractors of a pro-Russian conservative and authoritarian drift and of wanting to distance Georgia from the European Union and NATO, which it denies. The Kremlin rejected the accusations of interference. The EU and the United States have mentioned “irregularities” and requested investigations. (November 7, 2024)