Back from Georgia

[nwhyte]

Blogging has been a bit light over the last week, because I have been in Tbilisi, working with Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream coalition on this week's parliamentary elections. As you may have heard, he won, scoring 54.85% of the vote to the government's 40.43% (officially at least; the campaign's exit poll showed a bigger margin) and is

Comments

[steepholm]

Sounds like quite a week! Were you there in an official capacity, or as yourself, as it were?

[nwhyte]

I was there working at my day job. Which meant I didn't get out much until my last day. But there was plenty to do in the office...

[andrewducker]

I really was very cheered by the election result. Glad you were over there doing your bit!

[danieldwilliam]

Very pleased by the result. It actually sounds like an important step in normalising democracy in Georgia.

[dalmeny]

That must have been a fantastic moment to be part of. I hope it goes as well as possible from here.

[sashajwolf]

Oh, well done!