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, as Mishishie Fonorien in for Leanne Byrne.

Good morning.

At the intersection of Europe and Asia,

thousands of people were outside Georgia's parliament in 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 Tbilisi from where

the BBC's Rehan Dmitri reports.

The latest what's happening right now in Biliisi is the visit by Victor Orban.

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 win,

elections somehow are democratic. So that was his assessment. There are definitely supporters

of the Georgian dream. It is the most popular party, I would say,

but I think the opposition also has a point. If you look at the results of these elections,

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? Fadie Astley runs a consulting firm. He's also chairman of the Georgian Chambers of Commerce.

The mood of businesses is very grim. I've been speaking with many of my members. They're very

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