Congressman Joe Wilson on Wednesday published a statement, calling on “all free governments to refrain from senior meetings with the Ivanishvili regime until it agrees to hold free and fair elections.”

“We also call for unified sanctions against the regime,” Wilson wrote on X.

“We, transatlantic legislators and former senior policymakers from across the political spectrum, call on all free and democratic governments to demand free and fair elections in Georgia and reject the illegitimate Ivanishvili regime. We call for a unified policy that no senior meetings should take place between free and

democratic governments and this illegitimate regime until it agrees to new, properly monitored and conducted elections. Additionally, we call for unified sanctions on Ivanishvill’s regime and Georgian Dream officials and propagandists undermining Georgian democracy and sovereignty.

Ivanishvill’s Georgian Dream party has chosen to ignore the legitimate concerns of the opposition and international monitors about the recent elections, seated a one-party legislature, and unilaterally elected a now president. They have

responded with brutality to nightly protests of hundreds of thousands of protestors. The Georgian people demand free and fair elections and we must stand with them,” reads the statement.

I am grateful to lead this statement of the International Friends of Georgia. We call on all free governments to refrain from senior meetings with the Ivanishvili regime until it agrees to hold free and fair elections. We also call for unified sanctions against the regime. pic.twitter.com/K8sa1lRF5v

— Joe Wilson (@RepJoeWilson) January 8, 2025