Georgia's central election commission said it will partially recount ballots Tuesday after opposition parties denounced the weekend parliamentary election as "stolen."
U.S. President Joe Biden added his voice to Western critics of the election, saying he was "deeply alarmed" by democratic "backsliding" in the Caucasus country and that the vote was marred by "voter intimidation and coercion."
Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had defied Western concerns over the vote and traveled to Tbilisi in a show of support for the ruling conservative Georgian Dream party.
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