“All efforts of political parties, society, activists, judges, and lawyers should be directed towards scheduling a hearing and having the Constitutional Court review the lawsuit that has been filed, which, if resolved positively, will return us to constitutional frameworks,” Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili stated at today’s briefing, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports.
According to her, in the current situation, “the only peaceful and stable path is new elections.”
“The first stage, the action that should start and will start this very evening in Batumi, is pressure on the Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court and its judges have an enormous opportunity to resolve a very deep crisis in the country. Instead, the Constitutional Court is not doing anything, not even scheduling a hearing, so all efforts of political parties, society, activists, judges, and lawyers should be directed towards scheduling a hearing and having the Constitutional Court review the lawsuit that has been filed and which, if resolved positively, will return us to constitutional frameworks.
The elections did not take place, the parliament is not legitimate, but the old parliament will return, and we will have a very stable movement towards new elections. The first stage is this constitutional lawsuit, but beyond that, we have only one demand, which is also a constitutional demand: when elections did not take place, when elections were falsified, when the people’s vote was stolen, the only way to stability and peace is new elections. Every other path leads to even more instability.
If we want to lead the country to peace, we must allow the population to reclaim their vote without rigging. Everyone, primarily political parties and non-governmental organizations involved in this process, must jointly develop what the conditions for new elections should be so that we do not find ourselves in the same situation and do not provide the same mechanisms for falsification. There are several very specific steps to be taken to genuinely protect these elections. Political and civic forces must agree on this election protection plan to present it, even when the EU technical mission arrives,” Salome Zourabichvili noted.
