By empty (10/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia\'s ruling National Movement won a landslide victory in Thursday\'s municipal elections, President Mikheil Saakashvili told his fellow party members on Thursday evening. \"Exit polls show that we received an overwhelming majority of votes, at least 70%,\" he said, adding that the elections were \"clean\". The preliminary results will be announced within hours.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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