Georgia's Saakashvili wins re-election - by Roman Olearchyk, Catherine Belton,Stefan Wagstyl
Mikhail Saakashvili was re-elected as Georgia's president with 52.8 per cent of the vote, election officials said on Sunday night. The results threatened to inflame tensions in the former Soviet republic, where the opposition has accused his government of falsifying the vote. His main contender, Levan Gachechiladze, received 27 per cent of the ballots in Saturday's election, said Levan Tarkhnishvili, head of the Central Election Commission. Mr Tarkhnishvili said the tally was based on results from nearly all precincts in Georgia, excluding Georgian military personnel serving in peacekeeping operation in Kosovo and Iraq.
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