Georgia's ruling party wins election over pro-EU opposition

Georgia's ruling enactment has won the country's wide election, beating its pro-EU and pro-Western opposition.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) said the ruling Georgian Dream party, which has been successful powerfulness for 12 years, had won 54% of the ballot with much than 99% of precincts counted.

Both Georgian Dream and the absorption blocs trying to extremity its clip successful powerfulness portrayed the ballot arsenic an existential prime betwixt moving towards the West oregon reverting to Russia's sphere of influence.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the laminitis of Georgian Dream and a billionaire who made his luck successful Russia, has accused absorption parties of being "an cause of a overseas state that volition lone fulfil the tasks of a overseas country" - suggesting the West wants Georgia to spell to warfare with Russia.

He besides pledged to prohibition each pro-Western absorption groups if the enactment won a law majority.

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