By Felix Gentle and Lucy Papachristou
TBILISI (Reuters) -Georgia’s ruling occasion and opposition events forecast victory in a parliamentary election on Saturday that they are saying will decide if the previous Soviet republic strikes in direction of the West or leans again in direction of Russia amid the conflict in Ukraine.
Rival exit polls gave sharply completely different projections for the election, with one survey displaying the ruling occasion profitable comfortably and two different polls displaying the opposition would clinch a majority.
An exit ballot by the Georgian Dream-supporting Imedi TV channel confirmed the ruling occasion profitable 56%.
However exit polls by the pro-opposition Formulation and Mtavari Arkhi channels confirmed main positive aspects for pro-Western opposition events, who they urged would collectively be capable to type a majority within the 150 seat parliament.