The pro-Moscow Georgian Dream party, which recently claimed a disputed victory in October elections followed by pro-European demonstrations in Tbilisi, is preparing to hold its first parliamentary session on 25 November.
Commenting on Radio Free Europe (RSE), Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said that foreign diplomats would not be invited to attend the session, saying that "only the Georgian people should celebrate it."
The European Union (EU) and other Western officials have expressed serious doubts about the October 26 election, in which Georgian Dream officially won 53,9 percent of the vote.
This week, opposition leaders urged foreign diplomats not to legitimize the new parliament by attending the first session of the parliament.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili refused to recognize the results certified by the country's Central Election Commission (CEC), and protests calling for new elections continued in the capital.
Protesters claimed that fraud was widespread during the campaign and vote and that Russia heavily influenced the outcome in favor of Georgian Dream, which has been in power since 2012.
In recent days, the Georgian police have put down demonstrations, using violence on November 19.
A video by an RFE/RL correspondent in Tbilisi shows police dragging people across the ground, including women, and beating them before taking them away.
On the same day, Zurabishvili filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court "demanding the annulment of the election results as unconstitutional".
The first item on the agenda of the constitutive session of the Parliament will be the authorization of all 150 parliamentary mandates.
Georgia has been a candidate for EU membership since last year, but the "foreign influence" law and anti-LGBT measures passed under the leadership of Georgian Dream have stalled those efforts.
The United States announced in July that it would suspend more than $95 million in aid to the Georgian government, warning it was backsliding on democracy.
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