Chairman of the Abkhaz Parliament Nugzar Ashuba told the Georgian news agency Inter-Press that the legislative body, “does not intend to consider the presidential order [over repeat elections] on the background of the current political situation.”
“Most of the parliamentarians believe that discussions over fixing the date of re-vote is untimely against the background of the Supreme Court’s decision, which has been taken in the highly-controversial circumstances,” Nugzar Ashuba told Inter-Press news agency.
In the wake of Supreme Court’s controversial ruling, outgoing Abkhaz President Vladislav Ardzinba issued an order on October 29 instructing the Central Election Commission to hold repeat presidential elections in the breakaway region within two months.
Opposition presidential candidate Sergey Bagapsh has already condemned the Ardzinba’s order as “illegitimate.”
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