A former Soviet Republic and a partial recount in a disputed election.

Live from the BBC World Service, this is the Marketplace Morning Report.

I'm Stephen Ryan, this is the marketplace morning in for Leanna Byrne. Good morning.

At the intersection of Europe and Asia, thousands of people were outside Georgia's

Parliament and Tbilisi overnight to protest against the ruling Georgian Dream Party's election

victory, protesters say they stole it.

Now the country's Electoral Commission has announced a partial recount of Saturday's

disputed poll. Hungary's Prime Minister has arrived in the capital Tibilii see

for more the BBC's Rehan Dimitri reports.

The latest what's happening right now in Bilii see is the visit by Victor Orbán.

He addressed the Georgian people.

He congratulated them on choosing peace and not allowing Georgia to become, as he said, a second Ukraine.

He said, look, Brussels has a kind of manual you know European leaders and when

Conservatives win they declare elections undemocratic and when liberals when elections somehow are democratic so that was his

assessment. There are definitely supporters of the Georgian dream. It is the the most

popular party I would say, but I think the opposition also has a point.

If you look at the results of this election, it suggests roughly that every second voter cast ballot for Georgian dream and the opposition says it simply cannot be true.

Ray and Dimitri there in Tbilisi, the US and the EU have both condemned what they called irregularities in the election.

The Georgian government denies there was widespread interference.

Opposition parties support the country moving closer to the European Union. So how are businesses feeling

about the result? Fady Ashley runs a consulting firm, he's also chairman of the Georgian

Chambers of Commerce. The mood of businesses is very grim. I have been speaking with many of my

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