The government claims total victory in elections that opposition parties refused to join.

Kobakhidze pledged to “completely neutralize foreign agents” and blamed foreign coordination for months of protests against his government’s authoritarian turn. Five activists were detained Saturday after demonstrators breached the presidential palace gates, facing charges of attempting violent overthrow. The EU rejected Georgian Dream’s “disinformation” about external meddling and called for the release of arbitrarily detained protesters, while major international election observers declined to monitor the vote.

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