Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday in the case in which he is accused, along with other defendants, of trying to illegally annul the results of the 2020 elections in the state of Georgia and said he will miss the next hearing.

With his announced absence from next week's court hearing, Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will not be able to hear the former president's first arguments against the charges.

Trump and 18 other people were indicted earlier this month in a 41-count indictment described as an alleged scheme to subvert the will of Georgia voters who chose Democrat Joe Biden over the Republican nominee in the 2020 presidential election.

For this case, Trump traveled to Georgia to turn himself in at the Fulton County Jail, where he became the first former president to take a judicial photo, but has only now pleaded not guilty.

The case - brought under Georgia's Corrupt Organizations Act - is a lengthy one whose trial logistics are likely to be complicated, involving many witnesses from all sides. At least two other defendants in this case have already filed requests for a speedy trial and to be tried separately.

The judge set a trial date for October 23 for one of them, Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who worked on coordinating and executing a plan to get 16 Georgia Republican officials to sign a certificate falsely claiming that Trump had won the elections in that state.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has said she wants all the defendants to be tried together, but Trump's lawyer, Steve Sadow, has filed a motion opposing this model and disputing the start date of the trial.

Some of the other defendants - including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows - are trying to take their cases to a federal court, but the court has not yet ruled on this request.

Trump - who appears in the polls as the favorite candidate for the Republican Party primaries - considers these lawsuits to be a politically motivated attempt to prevent him from reaching the White House again.

According to Lusa, the former president and candidate for the Republican Party nomination for the 2024 presidential elections will stand trial from March 4, 2024 in the federal case in Washington in which he is accused of trying to annul the results of the 2020 elections, the court ruled this week.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan's ruling denied a request by the defense to postpone the trial until April 2026, about a year and a half after the 2024 election, but also sets it after the January date proposed by special prosecutor Jack Smith's team. "The public is entitled to a swift and efficient resolution of this matter," Chutkan argued.

At the same time, the New York State Attorney General asked on Wednesday for a partial summary judgment in the fraud case against Trump, arguing that there is enough evidence to show that he inflated his assets. The civil suit brought by Letitia James is being heard in the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan and the formal trial is scheduled for October 2.

The lawsuit involves Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and the Trump Organization, for allegedly inflating the value of properties for financial gain, such as better loan conditions.