Election officials in the Caucasus republic of Georgia on Sunday declared the ruling Georgian Dream party the winner of parliamentary polls, prompting claims of fraud and calls for protests among the pro-Western opposition. The conservative nationalist party, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, secured 54.09% of the votes after almost all the ballots were counted, Central Election Commission (CEC) head Giorgi Kalandarishvili said in the capital Tbilisi. After counting the votes from 99.6% of the constituencies, some votes from abroad were still missing, Kalandarishvili announced. The provi…