The climate activist is supporting a push to overturn the national election by the country’s pro-Western opposition

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators who marched on the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on Monday as they protested against what they say was a rigged election last month.

The parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic took place on October 26, with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which advocates pragmatic relations with Russia, winning around 54% of the vote.

Various opposition parties each garnered between 11% and 3%. The opposition has refused to recognize the results of the poll, insisting they were falsified. President Salome Zourabichvili has backed these claims, urging the people to protest and saying Georgia had become a “victim of a Russian special operation.”

In an interview with Reuters, however, she insisted that she was not directly accusing Moscow of meddling, saying only that the “methodology used in support of most probably Russian… types is shown in the election.”

“Of course, you cannot prove anything,” she admitted, while pointing to “clear links” between the ruling party and Russia.

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    16 days ago

    Libs will sometimes support Palestine (but only so long as they are being well-behaved victims; they usually don’t support armed resistance) just like reactionaries will sometimes support Russia (they tend to do this for the wrong reasons though). Only one of these is not sufficient by itself. The real litmus test of an anti-imperialist is doing both.

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      15 days ago

      Libs that support Palestine always “denounce hamas” too, so it’s a superficially correct position at best. Libs still “both sides bad” the invasion of Viet Nam to this very day ffs. In their minds non-whites have no right to liberation struggle.