Thousands of opposition party supporters rallied on streets of Georgia after its top heads alleged on the ruling party for rigging tightly in the contested parliamentary elections. The protesters gathered outside parliament in Georgian capital Tbilisi. Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire ex-PM leading the ruling Georgian Dream party has denied accusations of electoral fraud. The party has won the elections with a margin of mere two per cent.
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The protest was marked by the entry refusion inside the new parliament by all Georgia's opposition parties lighted fears of another political crisis in the Black Sea nation. The elections are often followed by accusations of fraud and mass demonstrations. The country's biggest opposition force, exiled former president Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement (UNM), agreed with smaller opposition groups to form a coalition government if elected. "We demand the replacement of the totally discredited electoral administration and the holding of a fresh vote," said one of the UNM's leaders, Salome Samadashvili.
The Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia of Georgian Dream has said the elections marked "another important milestone in Georgia's democratic development" and condemns the opposition for hosting mass rallies amid the coronavirus pandemic. The electoral commission has yet to regularize early results showed Georgian Dream had won 48% of the proportional vote, against 46% for opposition parties. 120 out of the 150 seats in the legislature was decided by the proportional vote. Another 30 seats will be assigned in single-mandate constituencies requiring up to two rounds of voting, the final makeup of the new parliament may only become clear in late November.
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