Georgia PM Ally Wins Presidential Vote

The candidate backed by Georgia's billionaire Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has easily won the presidential election. Exit polls say Giorgi Margvelashvili, from Mr. Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream coalition, is set to win about 67 percent of Sunday's vote. With about 40 percent of precincts counted, election officials said Margvelashvili had 63 percent. In line with the exit polls, the candidate from outgoing President Giorgi Saakashvili's party, former parliamentary speaker ...

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