Georgia's President refuses to appear before prosecutors in election fraud probe

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The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia announced on Wednesday it has launched an investigation into alleged vote rigging in last weekend’s parliamentary election.

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00:00Georgia's president has refused to appear at the country's prosecutor's office after

00:05being summoned as part of a probe into alleged vote rigging in last weekend's election.

00:12It's not up to the president to provide the proofs that exist in the society. The non-governmental

00:19organization, the observers and regular citizens have been providing huge amounts of proofs

00:26that are every day coming out and are showing more and more how large, how systemic, how

00:32massive was the rigging of the elections.

00:37It comes as the European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has urged Georgian authorities

00:43to hold a transparent inquiry into the alleged irregularities, which he described as grave.

00:51Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelensky has said Russia has won in Georgia, warning it

00:56will do the same in Moldova unless the West ends its rhetoric on crossing Moscow's red

01:01lines.

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