TBILISI: Georgia votes on Saturday in bitterly contested parliamentary polls that have sparked fears of political instability in the Caucasus nation, with two pro-Western parties tied after a fraught campaign.
The knife-edge elections see the ruling Georgian Dream party, led from behind the scenes by billionaire ex-PM Bidzina Ivanishvili, grappling with the United National Movement (UNM), founded by exiled former president Mikheil Saakashvili.
Tensions have risen ahead of the vote in the ex-Soviet republic – which fought a brief war with Russia in 2008 and seeks EU and NATO membership – after a car bombing and shooting incident at a rally.
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Source: theSun
