Georgian leader scrapes narrow vote win: exit poll
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili appeared on course for a narrow win in the former Soviet state's presidential election on Saturday after the main independent exit poll handed him 52.5 percent of the vote.
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The parliament of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region says the opposition candidate won presidential elections.
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Exit polls suggest Georgia's President Saakashvili is on track for re-election, in a vote seen as a test for democracy.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili has apparently won a second term as president by a thin margin, election officials said late Sunday night.
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Today Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia ends his visit to Ukraine, where he was invited to Carpats by Viktor Yushchenko, the newly elected President of Ukraine.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili won the former Soviet republic's presidential election outright, an exit poll showed, but the opposition said the vote was rigged and called for mass protests on Sunday.
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After more than a week of delays, Sergei Bagapsh is declared the winner in Abkhazia's presidential elections.
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President Mwai Kibaki has beaten opposition rival Raila Odinga by a narrow margin to win re-election in Kenya's closest ever vote, the head of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) said on Sunday.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili voted on Thursday in local elections which will test his popularity after a major confrontation with Russia.
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Thousands of Georgian opposition protesters denounced as fraudulent a presidential election that swept Mikhail Saakashvili to a second term, threatening instability in the former Soviet republic once considered a beacon of reform
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Georgians began voting Saturday in an election that could topple President Mikhail Saakashvili, the U.S-educated leader who set out to transform the former Soviet republic into a modern European state but has since been accused of authoritarian leanings.
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Georgians began voting in an election on Saturday that pro-U.S. leader Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to win but surveys differ on whether his victory will be big enough to avoid a second round.
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The breakaway Abkhazia region of Georgia holds its first ever multi-candidate elections for president.
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President Mikhail Saakashvili headed for victory in Saturday's election, according to an exit poll in this former Soviet republic where he is fighting accusations of authoritarian tendencies four years after coming to power as a champion of democracy.
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Georgian forces seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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The breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia defiantly voted for a new president on Sunday, injecting further tension into relations between Georgia and its former colonial master Russia.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Supporters of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili began celebrating late Saturday as preliminary exit polls indicated he would narrowly avoid a runoff in this former Soviet republic's presidential election.