TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s president on Monday urged the West to support opposition protests after the governing party was declared the winner of a parliamentary election that she alleged was rigged with the help of Russia.
“You did not lose the election,” President Salome Zourabichvili told thousands of pro-Europe demonstrators who massed outside a floodlit parliament building Monday night. “They stole your vote and tried to steal your future, but no one has the right to do that and you will not let anyone do that!”
Zourabichvili told the flag-waving protesters that she would defend the South Caucasus nation’s path toward Europe against the governing Georgian Dream party.
“We have no
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