Georgia: EU negotiates an agreement and wants to believe in an end to the electoral crisis
European Council President Charles Michel and Georgian President Salomé Zourabishvili in Tbilisi on April 20.
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The President of the European Council Charles Michel was in Georgia on Tuesday April 20.
The day before, his team had obtained that the party in power and the opposition sign an agreement potentially allowing a way out of the crisis.
The opposition refuses since the parliamentary elections of October 31 to sit in Parliament, believing that the power had falsified the results.
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Régis Genté
The agreement negotiated by Charles Michel means that at least some of these opponents agree to enter Parliament, the others promising to follow them when the leader of the main opposition party,
Nika Melia
,
will be released from prison, where he has been since the end of February.
Indeed, the political forces of the former Soviet Caucasian Republic had been stuck in a face-to-face meeting for two months.
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The President of the European Council is keen not to let Georgia sink into the crisis, which is almost the only country in the former USSR to have experienced real democratic dynamics for the past fifteen years.
A superficial agreement?
He therefore returned to Tbilisi on Tuesday, April 20 to try to confirm the agreement obtained on Monday evening, under the terms of which some of the opposition deputies agreed to sit in parliament, something they had so far refused due to the fact frauds which allowed the party in power, the “Georgian Dream”, to gain 90 of the 150 seats
in the legislative ones
last October 31st.
If we rejoice in Tbilisi to see the EU mobilizing at such a level to help Georgia, many nevertheless regret a superficial agreement.
None of the reasons that led to the current crisis find a solution in this agreement, whether it concerns the problems of the electoral code, political persecution, or even the independence of the judiciary.
The concern therefore remains almost intact in Georgia, with everyone expecting new crises in the months to come.
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