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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has rejected the results of Saturday’s parliamentary elections due to what she said was large-scale fraud, and called for street protests on Monday in defiance of the country’s governing party, Georgian Dream. According to a preliminary count by the election commission, the conservative nationalist Georgian Dream, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. The opposition is split into several blocs, with the most popular, the Coalition for Change, winning 11%, according to the commission. The poll could see the …

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