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Georgia ruling party wins election, says poll body amid opposition protests

Georgian billionaire and founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili speaks to supporters in Tbilisi [Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP]

Georgia’s governing Georgian Dream party has won the country’s parliamentary election, says the electoral commission, amid protests from pro-Western opposition that denounced the vote as a “constitutional coup”.

With more than 99 percent of the precincts counted on Sunday, the governing party received more than 54 percent of the ballot, central election commission chair Giorgi Kalandarishvili told a news conference.

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