INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets Monday to protest against the ruling party's victory in parliamentary polls denounced
uncertainty since Saturday's vote, with Brussels, Washington, France and Germany condemning "irregularities."According to near-complete
results announced by the electoral commission, the ruling Georgian Dream party won 53.92% of the vote, compared with the 37.78% garnered by
a union of four pro-Western opposition alliances.Georgian Dream has for months been accused by the opposition of steering Tbilisi away from
its goal of joining the EU and back into Russia's orbit.Waving Georgian and EU flags, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside
the main parliament building in central Tbilisi, AFP journalists saw.They sang Georgia's national anthem, "Freedom," before pro-Western
anyone to steal our future," she told the cheering crowd, adding: "I swear to stand with you until the end on our path towards Europe, where
we belong."Opposition leader Giorgi Vashadze said opposition parties will not enter the new "illegitimate" parliament and voiced their joint
demand for "fresh legislative elections" to be held by an "international election administration."One of the demonstrators, university
student Irine Chkuaseli, 19, said: "When I first heard Georgian Dream declared victorious, I felt totally hopeless
But that didn't last long, I quickly shifted to being fired up to fight for the truth.""Most people feel the same way, and we will not stop
until these fake [election] results get canceled."Speaking to AFP, Zurabishvili claimed the use of "quite sophisticated" fraudulent schemes
in the weekend's vote.She had earlier declared the election results "illegitimate," alleging a "Russian special operation" to interfere
difficult to accuse a government, and that's not my role, but the methodology is Russian," Zurabishvili told AFP, adding that it was
"difficult to deal with" Russia, which she called "threatening."A group of Georgia's leading election monitors told a news conference
Monday that they had uncovered evidence of complex, large-scale fraud that altered the election outcome in favor of the ruling party.They
called for a swift investigation and demanded the annulment of at least 15% of all the votes cast in the elections, claiming to have
documented evidence of election rigging at dozens of polling stations.Defying the EU's concerns over the vote, Hungarian Prime Minister
visit to Tbilisi.'Irregularities'Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Monday insisted EU membership remained a "main priority" for
enough to govern but short of the supermajority it had sought to pass a constitutional ban on all the main opposition parties.The polls have
prompted widespread international criticism.United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken blasted "misuse of public resources, vote
buying and voter intimidation," which he said "contributed to an uneven playing field."An EU parliament mission said the vote was evidence
of Tbilisi's "democratic backsliding," adding that it had seen instances of "ballot box stuffing" and the "physical assault" of
observers.Germany and France expressed "concerns" over electoral irregularities.Orban arrivesOrban, who has retained ties to Moscow despite
the 2022 Ukraine invasion, tweeted a message of support for the Georgian government on his arrival in Tbilisi on Monday evening."Georgia is
a conservative, Christian and pro-Europe state
Instead of useless lecturing, they need our support on their European path," Orban wrote on X.EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has
call of the opposition."The President of Georgia has announced that the parliamentary elections were falsified
Europe must now stand with the Georgian people," Poland's foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on X Sunday.Georgia was rocked in May by
huge demonstrations against a law on "foreign influence", that critics said mirrored Russian legislation used to silence Kremlin critics.The
United States imposed sanctions on Georgian officials following the protests, while Brussels put EU hopeful Tbilisi's accession process on
