Protests in Georgia over disputed vote as PM threatens to ban opposition

Georgians protested on Saturday as the poll commission rubber-stamped the ruling party’s victory in a contested parliamentary vote marked by claims of Russian meddling and western calls to investigate fraud allegations. The Caucasus nation’s pro-western opposition has denounced the 26 October vote as “fraudulent”, while the EU and the US have called for an investigation into alleged electoral “irregularities”. The Georgian Dream party won 53.93% of the votes against 37.79% garnered by a union of four opposition alliances, the national election commission said. Critics have blamed the increasingly conservative party for derailing Georgia from its European path and bringing Tbilisi

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