Tens of thousands rally in Georgia to denounce parliamentary election

Demonstrators gather in front of the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia (Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP)

Tens of thousands of Georgians massed outside the country’s parliament on Monday night, demanding the annulment of the weekend parliamentary election that the president denounced as rigged with the help of Russia.

The rally deepened the political crisis in the South Caucasus country, where the governing Georgian Dream party has become increasingly authoritarian and tilted toward Moscow.