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The Government of Georgia has been “forced” to ask the country’s Constitutional Court to confirm whether the President of Georgia violated the Constitution in her international visits, the Political Council of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party said on Tuesday.

The statement follows Monday’s address by President Salome Zourabichvili to the Parliament, in which she detailed her visits to a number of European states for holding meetings on the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

GD’s Political Council said the Constitution stipulated the visits could only have been made through the “consent of the Government”, while the President’s meetings had not complied with the provision “as she herself admitted at yesterday’s sitting [in the legislative body]”.

“[The visits] were planned by the President without any prior consultation with the Government, and the Government was informed of the visits only after [the fact], confirming that the President had intentionally violated the Constitution,” the ruling party statement said.