Ex-envoy wins presidency in Georgia; vote to be challenged
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ” Georgia’s new president is the country’s French-born former foreign minister, election officials said Thursday as the losing candidate vowed to challenge the result, calling it a “criminal farce.”The Central Election Commission said Salome Zurabishvili had won nearly 60 percent of the vote, while her rival, Grigol Vashadze, polled just over 40 percent in Wednesday’ presidential runoff.Zurabishvili, 66, ran as an independent, but was backed by the ruling […]
