Georgia's Presidency to Be Decided by Runoff

Georgia's presidential election will go to a runoff after French-born former Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili won the first round by a razor-thin margin but failed to muster enough votes to avoid a showdown against her closest rival. The Central Election Commission (CEC) said early on October 29 that according to results from 99 percent of the polling stations, Zurabishvili had 38.6 percent of the vote, while Grigol Vashadze was less than 1 percentage point behind her with...

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