The President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, stated that the decision of the ruling "Georgian Dream" party to stop the negotiations on membership in the European Union, "put an end to the constitutional coup started by the current authorities a few months ago."
"Today I met the ambassadors of the European Union countries and told them that the current leadership has finally left Europe and moved to Russia. I asked the ambassadors to do everything to hold new elections in Georgia," Zurabishvili said at the briefing held on Thursday.
According to him, he also met with the leaders of the opposition parties and called on them to unite in the "struggle for European values".
"Today I am the president, I represent the only legal structure in this country that has the opportunity to talk with world leaders, I will convey to them the will of the Georgian people," Zurabishvili said.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said earlier Thursday that Georgia will not raise the issue of opening negotiations on EU membership until 2028, and the country is also refusing any budget grants from the EU for this period.
