Georgian Elections?

Have the Georgian elections gone well? Too early to say, I suppose. Not all results are in yet; some small localities could not vote due to excessive snow, but the voting and the counting and early announcing of partial results went ahead. Not sure that that is quite total democracy. Foreign observers seem, at first sight, to be content with the voting process itself, though the opposition say that exit polls have been falsified - but then, folks, exit polls are totally irrelevant - people can tell you what they like; it all depends on the crosses on the pieces of paper.

What went on during the election campaign is a different matter of course; unfortunately that is not observed by influential foreign bodies (not sure that any foreign body, unless it is inside his body, can influence Mr Saakashvili...).

The result so far, just over 50% for Saakashvili, is at least not indecently high as it might have been in some other countries. Still, it might be (have been?) good for him not to win an outright majority at the first attempt, just to put him in his place a bit.