Georgian opposition plans protest against governing party’s election victory

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili called for a protest (AP)

Opposition supporters in Georgia plan to hold a protest in the capital against the official results of a weekend parliamentary election in which the governing party was declared victorious amid voting irregularities and allegations of Russian meddling.

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said she did not recognise the official results and that the country had fallen victim to a “Russian special operation” aimed at pulling it back into Moscow’s orbit and derailing its plan to join the European Union.