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President of Georgia calls current government illegitimate

BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 27. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said she does not recognize the election results and called the current government illegitimate, TurkicWorld reports.

Zurabishvili also called on residents of the country to protest against the results of the parliamentary election on Monday outside the parliament building in Tbilisi.

"I want to invite you all to Rustaveli Avenue tomorrow evening at seven o'clock so that we can together announce to the world and to ourselves that we do not recognize the election," Zurabishvili said.

The Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party is reported to be leading in the parliamentary election with 53.93% (1,118,796 votes).

According to the Central Election Commission, out of 3,111 polling stations, results were processed from 3,109, which is 99.936% of all stations.

The coalition "For Change" (Gvaramia, Melia, "Girchi - More Freedom", "Droa!") received 11.03% (228,821 votes), the coalition "Unity - National Movement" - 10.161% (210,787 votes), the Strong Georgia coalition (Lelo, For the People, Freedom Square) — 8.814% (182,839 votes), the Gakharia for Georgia Party — 7.771% (161,215 votes).

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