Georgia goes to the polls in vital test

Voters in Georgia are choosing a new parliament in a heated election that will decide the future of president Mikhail Saakashvili’s government.

Georgia goes to the polls in vital test

Voters in Georgia are choosing a new parliament in a heated election that will decide the future of president Mikhail Saakashvili’s government.

Emotions are running high in an election that is competitive not only for Georgia but for much of the former Soviet Union. If Mr Saakashvili’s party loses, it would be the first time in Georgia’s post-Soviet history that a government has been changed not through revolution but at the ballot box.

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