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Stockholm – “Every little thing means that there have been many irregularities, that it’s an election that’s not dependable,” says Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, relating to the election in Georgia.
The Swedish authorities has determined to pause all direct authorities cooperation with Georgia after the election.
“That is extraordinarily worrying, {that a} Russian-influenced authorities is doing all the things they will to cease critical approaches to Europe the place there’s a standard will. And it will need to have penalties,” says the Prime Minister.
Kristersson reacts to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s assertion that the election was “free and democratic.”
“He doesn’t converse for the international locations of Europe, he doesn’t converse for Sweden, he could converse for Russia, however he doesn’t converse for the remainder of us.”
Georgia’s election was “free and truthful,” claims Orbán throughout a press convention in Tbilisi on Tuesday – facet by facet with Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobachidze.
Orbán’s journey to Georgia deepens the divide between Hungary – at the moment the presiding nation of the EU’s Council of Ministers – and the EU, observers say. The EU has burdened that the Hungarian Prime Minister, who’s Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest ally within the EU, doesn’t symbolize the union throughout his go to in Tbilisi.
Orbán’s journey has been criticized by ministers from quite a lot of EU international locations.
(October 29)
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