LIVE: Protesters flood Tbilisi streets after controversial election

Opposition supporters protest in Tbilisi after parliamentary elections.

Georgia is braced for nationwide protests after the country’s president accused the government of working with Russia to steal elections and stage a Moscow-backed “takeover”.

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President Zourabichvili, the cere­monial head of state, accused the Georgian Dream party of the “complete falsification” of parliamentary elections that had been portrayed by the government and opposition as the most important since the Black Sea country achieved independence from Moscow in 1991.

“This was was a complete falsification and theft of your votes, using every available tactic we have seen both in other countries and in Georgia,” Zourabichvili said during a much-anticipated speech at the Orbeliani presidential palace in Tbilisi, the capital.

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