By Ailis Halligan in southern Georgia “The elections were like a party, it was a celebration,” said Londa, her elbows resting on the counter of the khachapuri kiosk where she works in Dmanisi, in Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli region. On the opposite side of the town’s central square, the draughty Dmanisi museum boasts replicas of five 1.8mn-year-old hominid skulls which were dug up in nearby caves in 1991. This discovery put Georgia on the map as the motherland of the first Europeans, with Dmanisi as the flag bearer. Yet, in Georgia’s recent parliamentary elections, the increasingly anti-European Geo…