The Georgian Dream takes total control

The runoff of the parliamentary election in Georgia took place on 30 October 2016. Mainly representatives of the Georgian Dream and the opposition United National Movement competed in the fifty single-seat constituencies.

The Georgian Dream, a party controlled by the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili was the unquestionable winner of both the first and the second rounds; it will have a total of 115 seats and a constitutional majority. The United National Movement (27 seats) and the pro-Russian Alliance of Patriots of Georgia (6 seats) also made it into parliament.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The parliamentary election in Georgia: Georgian Dream remains in power http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-parliamentary-election-in-georgia-georgian-dream-remains-in-power/

ESO: Background information: Georgia: pre-electoral uncertainty http://www.europeansources.info/record/georgia-pre-electoral-uncertainty/

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