Revival Receives 95% of Adjara Votes

The Central Election Commission has just received counted votes cast in Adjara Autonomous Republic on November 2 parliamentary elections.

Givi Komakhidze, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission stated the Revival Union, led by the Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze, received 269,854 votes with total number of voters in Adjara – 284.000, thus 95 %.

The pro-presidential bloc For New Georgia, the New Rights and the Industrialists parties received the remaining votes in Adjara.

In the preliminary assessments of the November 2 parliamentary elections the international, as well as local observers condemned numerous violations and ballot fraud in Adjara.

As a result of the Adjara votes the Revival Union becomes the becomes the frontrunner in the November 2 elections with 21%, however the votes in several hundred precincts still remain uncounted.

Below are the preliminary results of elections:

Revival – 21%
For New Georgia – 20%
National – 19%
Labors – 11%
Burjanadze-Democrats – 7%
New Rights – 6,59%
Industrialists – 5,09%