On Saturday, the Election Commission in Georgia confirmed the victory of the ruling party in Parliament after it disrupted a meeting due to an opposition politician throwing paint at the head of the commission.
A video clip broadcast by Georgian television channels showed David Kirtadze, a member of the United National Movement led by former President Mikheil Saakashvili, spraying black paint on the head of the Central Election Commission, Giorgi Kalandarishvili, causing him to be injured in the eye.
The Ministry of Interior said it had opened an investigation into the incident.
Kalandarishvili returned to the meeting with a bandage over his left eye, after he signed a protocol confirming the victory of the ruling pro-Russian Georgian Dream party in the October 26 elections.
Georgian media reported that the party received 53.9% of the votes, gaining 89 seats in the 150-seat parliament.
After the vote, supporters of opposition parties organized several protests in Tbilisi, claiming election fraud.
Two American polling companies said that the official election results indicate fraud because they skewed sharply in favor of the Georgian Dream from the polls the two companies conducted for pro-opposition television channels.
Opponents of the Georgian Dream say that it wants to distance the Caucasian state from Europe and return it to the Russian orbit.
But the party says it wants to protect the country from subversive foreign influence and from being drawn into a war with Russia, like Ukraine.
It says it remains committed to seeking a future in the EU, but the EU says it has frozen Georgia’s membership application due to concerns about democratic decline.