Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has said it would be ‘difficult’ to congratulate Moldovan President Maia Sandu after her pro-EU party notched a victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. ‘We will wait until Moldova leaves the CIS, and then we will see, we will reconsider the issue of congratulations’, Kobakhidze said. The pro-government Georgian media outlet Rustavi 2 also picked up on the manipulated video, but deleted their post shortly after. Elsewhere, pro-government Georgian media outlets largely did not overtly criticise the election or the victory of Sandu’s PAS. Rustavi 2 did, however, report on various complaints about the election from Moldovan opposition figures, including an allegation from former President Igor Dodon, of the pro-Russian BEP, that Sandu was trying to ‘cancel’ the election.