Baku / 29.11.18 / Turan: Salome Zurabishvili won the presidential elections in Georgia, according to the data of the Central Election Commission of the country after counting 100% of the votes.
Zurabishvili has 1.1 million votes (59.52%), and her opponent Grigol Vashadze has 780.6 thousand (40.48%).
Formally, Zurabishvili went to the polls as an independent candidate, but she was supported by the ruling party Georgian Dream.
Vashadze ran as a candidate from the United National Movement party.
November 28 was the second round of the presidential elections. In the first round a month ago, none of the candidates managed to get more than 50% of the vote.
A French citizen Salome Zurabishvili is the former Georgian Foreign Minister in the government of Mikhail Saakashvili. Subsequently, she left the Saakashvili team, moving to the camp of his opponents.
Note that the entire power in Georgia is held by the Prime Minister. -02D-
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