Opposition leaders recommend Georgian president abstain from visiting prosecution service

TBILISI. Oct 30 (Interfax) - Opposition leaders have recommended that Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili abstain from visiting the prosecution service and explaining her statement on the falsification of the Georgian parliamentary elections.

"We, the opposition, have no intention to visit the Georgian prosecution service, as we have no trust in it. I believe the president will not visit the prosecution service either, however, she does not need my advice," opposition co-leader Zurab Japaridze told the press on Wednesday.

In turn, Executive Secretary of the Georgian Dream ruling party Mamuka Mdinaradze recommended that Zourabichvili cooperate with the prosecution service, which summoned her for October 31 to explain her statement on the falsification of the parliamentary elections.

"President Zourabichvili has to say what her accusations are based on. In the course of the investigation conducted by the prosecution service, we are ready to open any polling station to prove it was a fair election, while the president and the opposition leaders must answer for their accusations," Mdinaradze told the press.

The Georgian prosecution service said earlier on Wednesday, "The Georgian prosecution service has launched an investigation into the presumed falsification of parliamentary elections containing formal elements of a crime, on the basis of an appeal from the Central Elections Commission."