4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Why are people protesting on the streets of Tbilisi, in Georgia, and how did people vote in Indian-administered Kashmir? With correspondents Nina Akhmeteli and Raghvendra Rao.
Produced by Alice Gioia and Hannah Dean.
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
0:07.7 | This is the fifth floor. |
0:11.5 | The fifth floor, you knowssonous. |
0:15.9 | This is the fifth floor at Farnak Amidi Sobeth. This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world. |
0:28.9 | I'm your host, Faranak Amidi. |
0:35.4 | All eyes have been on the United States election and its results for the past week or so. |
0:42.0 | Now, if you want to break from all things U.S., then you're in the right place because on the fifth floor, |
0:48.4 | we've decided to have a look at other elections that took place in the past few weeks. |
0:54.6 | So let's start with Georgia, not the U.S. state, but the Eastern European country on the border |
1:01.2 | with Russia. They also had an election recently, and their results divided people. |
1:20.2 | To find out more, BBC World Service correspondent in Georgia, Nina Ahmedelli is joining me from the capital, Tbilisi. |
1:22.2 | Hi, Nina. It's great to have you with us. |
1:23.0 | Hello, hello. |
1:30.3 | There's been a bit of political tension ever since the results came out. Tell me more about it. What's going on? Our opposition is staging rallies and marches almost daily in the center of |
1:37.2 | the Belisi. And they demand new parliamentary election and international investigation into |
1:43.8 | election rigging in Georgia. |
1:46.7 | But so far there are no signs that the ruling party is going to step back or to compromise |
1:53.0 | on election results. |
1:55.0 | So far we have preliminary results of the Central Election Commission. |
1:59.0 | So according to this results, the ruling party, Georgian Dream, which has been in power since 2012, won the parliamentary elections with almost 54% of the vote. This will give them 89 of the 150 seats in the parliament. |
2:19.3 | So they will have majority. |
2:22.3 | And the remaining seats will be split between four opposition forces. |
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