“The Central Election Committee must urgently conduct investigation on all counts of those violations. If it is proved that the elections were fair, in this case they can be considered neither free nor honest,” a statement from the Foreign Ministry of Great Britain said. “Judging upon our standards, the elections were unfair, non-democratic and not honest,” the Foreign Ministry of Germany said in a statement.
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Even the U.S. administration set out its disappointment in the Georgian elections. “The USA points out several positive aspects in the past elections. However, our estimation coincides with many preliminary data and conclusions made by independent observers. OSCE observers, for example, said that the elections did not correspond to many international obligations and were shadowed by considerable obstacles for opposition parties and the use of administrative resources to achieve certain political interests,” a statement from the U.S. state Department said.
It seems that the West has revised its favorable attitude to Mikhail Saakashvili. It is not ruled out that businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, the major rival of the retired president, may have used his influence. The report, which international observers made on the results of the voting, reflects all numerous violations which took place during the pre-election campaign.
Mikhail Saakashvili may now count the last days of his stay at power. The current Georgian administration has failed to build the democracy that would bear at least a slight resemblance to the Western analogue. The pre-election campaign was turned into the laudation of one leader, which resembles the worst form of dictatorship. The USA and Europe can not wait anymore for Saakashvili and his team to regain consciousness, and they decided to place their stake on another person.
Logic comments? Quite enough. They definitely could be included in the report on the results of the presidential elections in Georgia, which would be exposed two days after the vote, on January 7. One could think that the West started to give sober explanations to the events happening in a small and proud country which struggles with the legacy of the 200-year Russian yoke, as some Georgian textbooks on history say.
As a matter of fact, there are no such estimations in the report or statements from Western organizations. One may find only minor remarks to the pre-election campaign that is being held democratically, according to Western standards.
Ivan Shmelev
Pravda.ru
Translated by Dmitry Sudakov
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