Georgia election a test of democracy
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Electricity shortages regularly threw Georgia into darkness before Mikhail Saakashvili was elected president four years ago and set out to transform the bankrupt former Soviet republic into a modern European state.
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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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Sometimes your own partyÃ¢ÂÂs support isnÃ¢ÂÂt enough Ã¢ÂÂ a fact of political life being borne out again in the competitive Republican-versus-Republican special election campaign for the vacant House seat in GeorgiaÃ¢ÂÂs 10th Congressional District.
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Former Soviet Georgia on Saturday voted in a presidential election expected to hand its pro-U.S. leader Mikhail Saakashvili a narrow win but opponents said they may take to the streets in protest.
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Georgiaâs American-educated and pro-Western president, Mikheil Saakashvili, was leading in polls ahead of an election Saturday cast as a bid to restore his mandate.
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Polls open in Turkey's general election, which is seen as a key test of the country's secular tradition.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to win this Saturday's snap presidential election but most analysts and polls say it is unclear if his victory will be decisive enough to avoid a second-round run-off.
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Several hundred government opponents protested in the snow Wednesday to demand a presidential runoff vote as Georgia's top electoral official said a nearly complete ballot count confirmed Mikhail Saakashvili's re-election.
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Polling stations opened Sunday in Spain&#39;s regional and municipal elections, a major test for the Socialist government ahead of general elections expected next year.
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Western election observers said on Sunday Georgia's presidential election was broadly fair and Washington urged the opposition, gathering in the capital to protest the result, to show restraint.
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in Georgia's capital, pressing for a presidential runoff but celebrating an agreement giving the opposition more control over the main state-funded television station.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election Saturday will be a historic experiment with democracy after more than two decades of ruin, from Soviet occupation to civil war to the repressive Taliban and the thunderous U.S. bombing campaign that ended their rule...
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Georgia's opposition ups its challenge to presidential election results, threatening a mass rally and a hunger strike.
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Georgia's opposition were taking to the streets on Sunday to protest over a presidential election they said was rigged to hand victory to Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili.
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GABORONE  - Queues of voters in diamond-rich Botswana waited patiently to cast their ballots in elections that are expected to hand victory to the party in power since independence in 1966 in one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili beat his opponents in a snap presidential election, early results showed on Sunday, but he faced the prospect of a potentially risky second round run-off.
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Abkhazians are taking their democratic rights seriously as they vote to replace the man who led their fight for independence from Georgia.