🇬🇪 Today it’s election day in Georgia and people will vote for the Parliament and the next government.

📃 Main alliances/parties and candidates:
💙 GD (Populism): Irakli Kobakhidze (incumbent Prime Minister)
❤️ UNM (Liberal Conservatism): Tina Bokuchava
💚 Coalition for Change (Liberalism): Nika Gvaramia, Nika Melia, Zurab Japaridze, Elene Khoshtaria
💛 Strong Georgia (Progressivism): Mamuka Khazaradze
💜 For Georgia (Social Democracy): Giorgi Gakharia

📃 Other parties competing to enter parliament:
💛 APG (Nationalism): Irma Inashvili, Davit Tarkhan Mouravi
💚 NPC-Girchi (Libertarianism): Iago Khvichia
❤️ GLP (Social Democracy): Shalva Natelashvili

🗳 Like the elections in Moldova, the main topic dominating the elections was foreign policy, with GD officials accusing the West of supporting the liberal opposition and wanting to open a second front against Russia. Georgian Dream campaigned on the defence of traditional values and maintaining peace with Russia while advancing European integration goals. Opposition parties focused on economic liberalisation and European integration, except for the AFP, which promoted a conservative agenda.

📊 Polls are conducted on behalf of partisan media, therefore results vary, although GD is steadily shown ahead:
🗳 GD: 32-35% (55-60% on pro-government media)
🗳 UNM: 15-20% (13-14% on pro-government media)
🗳 Coalition for Change: 12-18% (9-10% on pro-government media)
🗳 Strong Georgia: 8-12% (3-5% on pro-government media)
🗳 For Georgia: 6-11% (3-4% on pro-government media)
🗳 NPC-Girchi: 3-6%
🗳 APG: 3-5%
🗳 GLP: 2-5%

🗳 Polls will remain open until 20:00 GET. The electoral threshold is 5%.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - Wall Street Journal states:

Several Arab and European countries gave Iran a warning about the Israeli attack hours before it occurred..

⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - The two announced causalities from the Israeli Aerial Attack overnight on Iran, Major 'Jahandide' and Chief Warrant Officer 'Shahrkhifar', seem to be the crew of a "MiM-23 Hawk" Air-Defense system.

More individuals have been injured, time will tell the extent of the damage.

⚡️🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The AlQassam Brigades announce the detonation of a Pre-Mined house on a number of IDF Infantry Units, leaving them dead an wounded.

The same unit also targeted 2 "Merkava" (unspecified variant) Tanks with “Yassin-105mm” (PG7-VR) Dual-Warhead Tandems yesterday in Northern 'Jabalia'.

⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - The IDF has published footage of "F15" and "F16" Fighter Jets preparing for the strike in Iran overnight.

The F15 "Sky Blazer" marked 957 seen in the video is the same jet that has shot down 4 Syrian Jets during its service, and has also participated in striking Yemen back in September.

Interestingly, the Co-Pilot of an F16 in the video is a female.

🇬🇪 Georgian Parliamentary Election 2024 Exit Poll (GORBI):
🗳 GD: 56.1%
🗳 Coalition for Change: 12.6%
🗳 UNM: 11.6%
🗳 Strong Georgia: 7.0%
🗳 For Georgia: 4.8%
🗳 NPC-Girchi: 3.0%
🗳 APG: 2.2%
🗳 Other: 2.7 %


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#BREAKING
⚡️🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Hezbollah has published a video, ordering all settlers to evacuate all [25] settlements in Northern Israel.

transcript:

To all residents of the settlements mentioned in this statement.

You are requested to vacate immediately. Your settlements have turned into a place of encampment and settlement for the enemy military forces that are attacking Lebanon.

By doing so, they became legitimate military targets for the air and missile forces in the Islamic resistance.