Presidential elections were held in Georgia on Sunday. Not all ballots have been counted yet, but judging by Russian-language publications, a second round is inevitable. The contenders are the candidate from the ruling “Georgian Dream” party and the candidate from the former ruling party, “United National Movement.” We have all seen how the ruling party resoundingly loses second rounds in Russia, and there is no reason to expect that it will be different in Georgia. So, most likely, Georgia will once again begin to turn back toward the path it deviated from in 2012.

One of his first actions after taking the oath of office, the UNM candidate Grigol Vashadze promises to pardon the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, and restore his Georgian citizenship.

And separately, it is worth congratulating the Georgian libertarians, who did not yet have their own political party in the last elections, while in these elections, the libertarian candidate is gaining, according to preliminary counts, more than two percent. For comparison, in the first US elections where a candidate from the Libertarian Party participated, they received fewer than four thousand votes.

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