Voters in Georgia today are going to the polls in a presidential election runoff on Wednesday that pits a candidate backed by the ruling party who favors balancing ties with Moscow and the West against a rival who advocates a stronger pro-Western line, DW reports.
To win, one of the candidates must gain over 50 percent of the vote. Otherwise, there will be a further ballot.
In the first round, Zurabishvili, a former career diplomat and Georgia's foreign minister from 2004-2005, received 38.7 percent of the vote on October 28. That was just one percentage point ahead of Vashadze with 37.7 percent.