Ballots in five randomly selected polling stations in each of Georgia’s 84 electoral districts will be recounted.
In Georgia, a governing party seen by most EU countries as increasingly Moscow-friendly won a parliamentary election on Saturday that was marred by reports of voting violations.
Thousands of Georgians took to the streets of capital Tbilisi on Monday evening to protest against the results of Saturday’s parliamentary elections, which saw the ruling pro-Kremlin Georgian Dream party secure a majority amid widespread reports of voting irregularities.
Nearly complete results from the election commission, which had previously described the vote as free and fair, point to a rather comfortable win for the ruling Georgian Dream party, with just under 54% of the votes.
