Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has no intention of going to the prosecutor's office to explain her statement on the rigged parliamentary election, which took place on October 26, APA reports citing Interfax.
"The prosecutors are expecting me to give evidence of the rigging, but it should happen the other way round. I would advise the prosecutors to do their job, and the president will do her job," Zourabichvili told a briefing on Wednesday.
The complaints filed by monitors and the general public indicate "large-scale rigging," expressed in the bribing of voters, so-called carousels at polling stations, and massive violations in electronic voting, she said.
"The restriction of the right to vote imposed on the Georgian diaspora, which has more than a million members, is an extremely serious violation," Zourabichvili said.
The Central Election Commission has received more than 1,100 complaints and demands for the election outcome to be annulled at 246 polling stations, where 400,000 voters voted, she said.
"I am not afraid of threats, and my fellow countrymen should not be afraid, either. Everything will be peaceful, and the authorities need to present a real election outcome," Zourabichvili said.