President tells Georgians to show the world where they stand on 'rigged vote'

Georgia's pro-Western president has appealed to the planetary assemblage to basal down her country's colonisation aft a disputed predetermination that she says was "totally falsified".

Salome Zourabichivili, who has sided with the opposition, has called Georgians retired connected the streets connected Monday, telling the BBC's Steve Rosenberg that this is simply a "crucial moment".

The ruling Georgian Dream enactment and the predetermination committee are adamant the result, giving the authorities astir 54% of the vote, was escaped and fair.

However, Zourabichvili urged Georgia's partners needed to spot what was happening, adding that the government's triumph was "not the volition of the Georgian people" who wanted to support their European future.

Zourabichvili made wide the protestation would beryllium "very peaceful", adding that she did not judge Georgia's authorities wanted confrontation.

It is not wholly wide what she and the 4 absorption groups anticipation to execute by bringing Georgians connected to the main avenue successful beforehand of the parliament connected Monday, but she said it was up to the radical and the governmental parties to determine what happened next.

"My telephone was to person a objection but wherever does the Georgian colonisation stand? It's what we're going to spot tonight."

"Maybe we won't beryllium capable to execute it contiguous oregon tomorrow," she said. "There are a fig of things that tin beryllium done. There tin beryllium an planetary reappraisal of immoderate of the elements of the election, determination tin beryllium a telephone for caller elections. In what play of clip I don't know."

The European Union, Nato and the US person called for a afloat probe into allegations by monitoring missions of ballot fraud earlier and connected the time of Saturday's vote.

The telephone for protestation echoes weeks of demonstrations that brought Tbilisi's cardinal Rustaveli Avenue to a standstill for weeks earlier this year.

There were clashes with riot police, who responded with h2o cannon, teardrop state and force, arsenic Georgians tried to halt the authorities pushing done a Russian-style "foreign agents" instrumentality targeting media and civilian nine groups that person overseas funding.

Ultimately the protests failed and the EU froze Georgia's bid to articulation the 27-country union, accusing it of antiauthoritarian backsliding.

The authorities has intelligibly prepared for further protests. Last week it emerged that the interior curate had bought caller h2o cannon vehicles and different instrumentality for riot police, including lethal weapons, for usage "when it becomes necessary".

Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has told the BBC that alleged violations up and during the ballot were confined to "just a couple" of polling stations. He said that "the wide contented of the elections was successful enactment with ineligible principles and the rule of antiauthoritarian elections."

But President Zourabichvili said the standard of predetermination fraud was unprecedented: "Everything was utilized that we've ever heard of successful this state successful a parallel way."

She alleged that, earlier the elections, families who were babelike connected authorities funds had seen their individuality cards taken away.

At the clip it was hard to archer why, she said, but it past became wide the individuality cards were being utilized for alleged carousel voting successful Georgia's caller physics voting strategy - "when 1 idiosyncratic tin ballot 10, 15, 17 times with the aforesaid ID".

She has besides described the effect of the ballot arsenic a "Russian peculiar operation", stopping abbreviated of accusing the Kremlin of nonstop intervention. Instead, she accused the authorities of utilizing a "very sophisticated" Russian-inspired propaganda strategy.

The authorities has vehemently denied having thing to bash with Russia, pointing retired it is the lone state successful the portion not to person diplomatic ties with Moscow.

Russia fought a five-day warfare with its confederate neighbour successful 2008 and inactive occupies 20% of Georgian territory.

The Kremlin has has denied having thing to with the predetermination and ridiculed Georgia's pro-EU president, whose word successful bureau comes to an extremity successful December.

A fistful of planetary leaders person congratulated Georgian Dream for securing a 4th word successful bureau successful the contested election, including Hungary's premier minister, Viktor Orban.

Orban was owed to get successful Tbilisi connected Monday connected a two-day sojourn that has annoyed respective of his European partners due to the fact that of the connection it sends the Georgian government.

Germany's overseas ministry spokesperson said the Hungarian person could question wherever helium wanted, though it was wide helium was not speaking connected behalf of the EU.

Hungary presently holds the presidency of the EU, but overseas argumentation main Josep Borrell stressed that it had "no authorization successful overseas policy".

"Whatever Mr Orban says successful his sojourn to Georgia, helium does not correspond the European Union," Borrell told Spanish radio.