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Hungary PM Orban says Georgia elections free and democratic

Results have been bitterly contested by the opposition

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(ANSA-AFP) - TBILISI, OCT 29 - Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orban said Tuesday in Tbilisi that Georgia's parliamentary election, whose results have been bitterly contested by the opposition, had been "free and democratic". The Hungarian prime minister, who has maintained friendly ties to Russia, congratulated the Georgian people for "having voted for peace" and "not letting your country become a second Ukraine".
    Orban, current holder of the European Union's rotating presidency, said that "if the liberals had won" Brussels would have called Saturday's vote "democratic". (ANSA-AFP).
   

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