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Georgia has no intention of trusting "foreign aunties and uncles"
"This means that Georgia is not an independent state," he said at a press conference in response to opposition demands that the investigation into possible fraud in the October 26 general elections be handed over to international investigators.
"This means that we will have to be governed from abroad," said the head of Georgia's highest legislative body.
Shalva Papuashvili called the opposition “rootless” and explained his defeat in the elections by the fact that it does not focus on national interests and only listens to instructions from the West.
"If you do an international study, foreign aunties and uncles will come and say there's nothing we can do. They'll talk about a country that's 3,000 years old," he said.
The Georgian opposition refuses to cooperate with the country's prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who offer to provide evidence of possible forgery.
The opposition party refuses to accept the results of the elections in which it lost and has been protesting since this evening.