Rival sides claim victory in Georgia’s key elections

Rival exit polls merchandise importantly antithetic projections for the parliamentary election.

Georgia’s governing enactment and the absorption groups person claimed triumph successful the cardinal parliamentary elections, each pointing to antithetic exit canvass numbers, portion each eyes stay connected the results that volition find the aboriginal way of the erstwhile Soviet republic.

One of the surveys showed the governing Georgian Dream enactment winning comfortably portion 2 different polls projected the pro-West absorption to triumph a majority.

The national of 4 absorption alliances received a combined 51.9 percent of the vote, with the governing Georgian Dream enactment connected 40.9 percent, according to an exit canvass commissioned by a pro-opposition TV presumption from US pollster Edison Research.

An exit canvass by the Georgian Dream-supporting Imedi TV transmission showed the governing enactment winning 56 percent.