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Georgia: Pro-EU president survives impeachment vote

Georgia's President Salome Zurabishvili escaped an impeachment attempt by the countrie's legislature on Wednesday. Eighty-six of the 150 deputies in the Georgian parliament voted in favor of impeachment. That was well short of the two-thirds majority required. The opposition parties boycotted the vote.

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