Georgians voted under sunny skies Monday in a parliamentary election seen as a political crossroads, for this former Soviet republic, a rare democracy in the region. The hotly contested vote is the biggest challenge yet for the eight-year rule of Mikheil Saakashvili, a close ally of Europe and the United States. Saakashvili's term expires early next year, and the winning group in today's elections will win the right to appoint a prime minister under a new system in which the nation's ...
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