The Georgian opposition is refusing to recognize the preliminary results of Saturday’s parliamentary election, which see the national-conservative ruling party in the lead with 70% of the vote counted. Speaking in the capital Tbilisi, Tinatin Bokuchkva, the leader of the pro-European opposition party United National Movement, charged late Saturday that the election commission had “carried out the dirty work of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.” Ivanishvili is the founder and honorary chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, which favours cooperation with Russia. Bokuchkva said that an actio…