"We call on all free and democratic governments to demand free and fair elections in Georgia and reject the illegitimate Ivanishvili regime, - reads a joint statement issued by US and European lawmakers and former senior officials.

The statement also calls for unified sanctions.

"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 Ivanishvili's regime and Georgian Dream officials and propagandists undermining Georgian democracy and sovereignty.

Ivanishvili'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 new 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 signed by:

Joe Wilson, Member of Congress, Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission

Richard Hudson, Member of Congress, Helsinki Commissioner

Michal Szczerba, Member of the European Parliament

Eerik-Niiles Kross, Member of the Estonian Parliament, Vice President of ALDE Group of PACE

Rt. Hon. Tom Tugenhat, Member of Parliament

Radosław Fogiel, Member of the Polish Sejm, Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Urmas Reinsalu, Member of the Estonian Parliament

Steve Cohen, Member of Congress, Ranking Member of the U.S. Helsinki Commission

Marc Veasey, Member of Congress, Helsinki Commissioner

Irma Kalniņa, Member of the Latvian Parliament, Deputy Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Michael Roth, Member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Marko Mihkelson, Member of the Estonian Parliament, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Gustaf Gothberg, Member of the Swedish Parliament

Lia Quartapelle, Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Žygimantas Pavilionis, Member of the Lithuanian Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Michael Gahler, Member of the European Parliament, European People's Party Foreign Affairs Coordinator

Helmut Brandstätter, Member of the European Parliament

Pavel Fischer, Member of Czech Senate, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Security, and Defense

Michał Wawrykiewicz, Member of the European Parliament

Agnieszka Pomaska, Member of the Polish Sejm

Reinier van Lanschot, Member of the European Parliament

Former Senior Policymakers:

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Former Foreign Minister of Lithuania

Ian Kelly, Former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia

Randy Scheunemann, Vice Chairman, International Republican Institute and Counselor, Halifax International Security Forum

Kenneth Yalowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia and Belarus

Laura Thornton, Director, Global Democracy Programs, McCain Institute and former Director, National Democratic Institute in Georgia

Hanna Hopko, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, former Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada

Rasa Juknevičienė, Member of the European Parliament, Standing Rapporteur on Georgia

Rihards Kols, Member of the European Parliament

Oleksandr Merezhko, Member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Danius Žalimas, Member of the European Parliament

Sebastian Tynkkynen, Member of the European Parliament

Nathalie Loiseau, Member of the European Parliament

Filippo Sensi, Member of the Italian Senate

Ulrich Lechte, Member of the German Bundestag

Bernard Guetta, Member of the European Parliament

David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute

Viola von Cramon, Former Member of the German Bundestag

Gerald Knaus, European Stability Initiative

Ben Hodges, Lt, Gen (ret.), former Commander, U.S. Army Europe

Evelyn Farkas, Executive Director, McCain Institute and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Alexandra Hall Hall, former British Ambassador to Georgia

Gary J. Schmitt, former White House National Security Official.