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These selfless servants of the people with clearly differentiated ideologies are competing for votes in tomorrow's elections. Languish, whom will you vote for?

[Edit: Mods, please fix grammar. I am dumb.]

None of them look particularly curious enough for my vote.

I assume that the main faultline in Georgian politics is russia versus western relations? Some want to turn the country over to russia, while the rest want to recklessly embrace the west - to the extent the russians will get pissed off and move in and take over the country?

Candidate #3 has a certain earnestness in his eyes that the others lack. This man would govern with integrity I think, based on this one out-of-context photo.

They look very Georgian...

Quote from: Valmy on October 07, 2016, 11:52:17 AM
Candidate #3 has a certain earnestness in his eyes that the others lack. This man would govern with integrity I think, based on this one out-of-context photo.

:lol:

Voted #4. I think she's a demon in bed.

The last guy is creepy as fuck.

Quote from: Valmy on October 07, 2016, 11:52:17 AM
Candidate #3 has a certain earnestness in his eyes that the others lack. This man would govern with integrity I think, based on this one out-of-context photo.

To me he looks overwhelmed and about to cry :D

The last guy looks like he's making someone an offer they can't refuse.  ;)

Voted #6, because if I don't he'll bust my knee caps. :(

Quote from: alfred russel on October 07, 2016, 11:52:00 AM
I assume that the main faultline in Georgian politics is russia versus western relations? Some want to turn the country over to russia, while the rest want to recklessly embrace the west - to the extent the russians will get pissed off and move in and take over the country?

That's one faultline, though the party that was most pro-Russia was banned. I haven't been following these elections very closely, but the role of the Church in society and economic redistribution/pensions are also perennial topics.

Mean looking Baptist church lady #4 for Fulton County Board of Education.  Jesus + Dinosaurs FTW

The cleaning lady looks the most cheerful.  I vote her.

The last one just needs a Persian cat to stroke to complete the Bond villain look.

Regarding #6, I was sure I had seen that same photo somewhere. Indeed, this guy is an opera singer and I saw him play Aida at the Met Opera back in the mid-2000s  :lol: That photo is one of his promotional pics.

Georgian Dream (the first dude) won with a 49% plurality: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-georgia-election-idUSKCN1272AT (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-georgia-election-idUSKCN1272AT)

QuoteThe ruling party in Georgia decisively won parliamentary elections, firming its grip on power in the former Soviet nation, near-complete results showed on Sunday.

With 99.41 percent of the votes in, data from the Central Election Commission gave the ruling Georgian Dream party 48.61 percent of the vote and the opposition United National Movement (UNM) 27.04 percent.

A U.S. ally traditionally buffeted between Russia and the West, Georgia hopes to join the European Union and NATO one day even though that is something that Russia, its former colonial master, strongly opposes.

With political stability still fragile -- the first peaceful transfer of power since the 1991 Soviet collapse only took place four years ago - the authorities were keen the election be widely seen as free and fair to avoid a return to the days when politicians tried to seize power by force.

Georgia is criss-crossed by strategically important oil and gas pipelines and a fifth of its territory remains under the control of pro-Russian separatists following a short war with Russia in 2008.

Georgian Dream, which is pro-Western but also favors closer ties with Russia, declared victory shortly after polls closed on Saturday.

"I congratulate you with a big victory Georgia!" Prime Minister Georgy Kvirikashvili told jubilant supporters gathered outside the party's headquarters in Tbilisi, the capital.

"According to all preliminary results, Georgian Dream is leading with a big advantage," he said, as dozens of party members waved blue party flags and balloons.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said on Sunday the election had been competitive and that fundamental freedoms had been generally respected.

With some parties threatening to organize street protests if they do not get into parliament, the government is likely to use the OSCE's assessment to bolster its assertion that the vote was largely fair despite some problems.

UNREST

The pre-election atmosphere was marred by a string of violent incidents blamed by Georgian politicians on everyone from Moscow to shadowy forces bent on destabilizing the vote.

In one of them, a group of unidentified attackers threw stones and smashed windows at two polling stations in the village of Jikhashkari in western Georgia on Saturday night.

They also damaged the ballot box and attacked international and local observers on the spot, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) said in a statement.

Before that, on Tuesday, a car bomb targeted an opposition deputy in Tbilisi. Givi Targamadze survived, but five passers-by were injured.

In a separate attack, two men were shot and wounded last Sunday at an election rally in the town of Gori, while on voting day itself disturbances broke out in the village of Kizilajlo in south-east Georgia.

Georgian Dream, which came to power in 2012, is funded by tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili, the country's richest man, while the opposition UNM was founded by former president Mikheil Saakashvili.

"I'm happy that Georgian Dream has won. I believe that they will do more for people," said Murman Sanikidze, a 37-year-old Tbilisi resident.

Although the economy is emerging from a deep slowdown, many in this nation of 3.7 million people are unhappy with their living standards, which have been hit by a decline in exports and remittances.

Ivanishvili, who made his fortune in Russia, helped end UNM's nine-year rule in 2012.

Under Georgian Dream, dozens of ex-officials have been arrested on charges such as abuse of power, though some Western countries have accused the government of applying justice selectively.

Saakashvili, now a regional politician in Ukraine, is wanted at home on several charges, including corruption. He says the charges are politically motivated.

Languish, meanwhile, handed fringe nationalist parties a majority.

They are all the same guy wearing different outfits and makeup.

 :o Racism!