**President Challenges Election Results**
The President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, has asked the Constitutional Court to declare the recent parliamentary election results unconstitutional. She claims that there were problems with the secrecy of the vote and universal suffrage during the October 26 elections.
This decision comes after a briefing yesterday where the President said she had exhausted all domestic legal options to prove that the elections had failed. Eka Beselia, the President’s lawyer, has filed the lawsuit with the Constitutional Court in Batumi.
The court now has 30 days to review the case. Some constitutional lawyers think that if the parliament‘s mandates are challenged, the new parliament may not be able to function until the court makes a decision. However, it is unclear how this would be interpreted by the ruling party, Georgian Dream.
**What happens next?**
The newly elected Parliament plans to convene on November 25. The fate of the election results and the upcoming parliament will now depend on the Constitutional Court’s ruling.