Georgia's electoral commission announced Monday that incumbent President Mikhail Saakashvili won the weekend's presidential election with two-thirds of the ballots counted. Saakashvili, who called the snap elections after violent protests in November, just narrowly crossed the 50-per-cent barrier needed to avoid a runoff vote. The opposition candidate Levan Ganchechiladze came second with 25.38 per cent, the ongoing official tally showed. Georgia's election commission chairman Levan Tarknishvili said he expected to publish official results "in the next few hours," according to the Central Election Commission's website, which was quoted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA).
