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Election Commission officials counting votes after presidential election at a polling station in Kutaisi, Georgia, October 28, 2018. REUTERS / Tornike Turabelidze
TBILISI (Reuters) – The first officials results from Georgia's presidential election on Sunday showed that they were likely to win victory and they would face a second round run-off vote.
The head of the Central Election Commission, Tamar Zhvania, said that Salome Zurabishvili had secured 40.05 percent of the vote and Grigol Vashadze had won 37.93 percent.
The ruling Georgian Dream Party, whose candidate is French-born Zurabishvili, said that she would meet opposition candidate Vashadze in an election run-off.
Reporting by Margarita Antidze; Editing by Susan Fenton
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