'The president spent the day in consultations with representatives of the four opposition parties'

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00:00Yeah, that might be quite important, and it will be a test, basically, for the whole country

00:06to see how far the four opposition parties or coalitions, which should enter into the

00:12parliament, will manage to gas up people tomorrow night in front of the parliament.

00:17That's important.

00:18The old day, the president spent the day in consultation with this representative of the

00:24four parties, which managed to get the threshold of 5 percent and will be represented in the

00:30parliament.

00:31But two of them said they won't recognize the result and they won't sit in the parliament.

00:35And indeed, they were echoed by the president, saying that she doesn't recognize the result.

00:41So she is really taking very hard lines in this election, which is seen, as you know,

00:47in the country as a very key moment of the history of this country.

00:51And then to oppose to the kind of U-turn made by the government to finally break the relation

01:00with the West and come back under the Russian influence.

01:03So important words.

01:05Then we'll see how much the people will follow her and follow the opposition on that Monday

01:09evening.

01:10Now, on the flip side, we have the Georgian Dream Party claiming the majority, the parliamentary

01:16majority.

01:17And one of their staunch allies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is set to come

01:22also on Monday at the same time, possibly even as that protest.

01:27What can we expect there?

01:29It is probably a sign that Mr. Orbán and the Georgian Dream understood that this victory

01:34is fragile and much less than was what was apparently expected from the government.

01:40The whole day yesterday during the voting, the Georgian Dream was saying that they were

01:47expecting the constitutional majority, and finally they are very far from that, with

01:51just 54 percent.

01:52The first person to congratulate the Georgian Dream was Viktor Orbán.

01:57And then we found out that he is coming both as a prime minister of Hungary and maybe as

02:02now the current leader, I would say, of European Union.

02:06So he tries to bring, to give this election the legitimacy, the legitimacy to the victory

02:12of the Georgian Dream.

02:15We have to, I have to remind, to recall that Mr. Orbán is a long supporter of the Georgian

02:20Dream, and since two, three years at least, he is really siding with this party and played

02:26probably an important role, finally, to give Georgia, for example, the status of candidate

02:32to the EU last December, last year.

02:35So he really is an ally of this country, he's quite powerful, and it is helping this

02:41Georgian Dream to say that they are still pro-European, but for another Europe, Europe

02:46of the traditional values and so on.

02:48That's why he's so important now for the Georgian Dream.

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