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Voters overwhelmingly elected Giorgi Margvelashvili of the ruling Georgian Dream party to lead the former Soviet republic. But tough issues await the pro-West nation.

It was a move that 71 percent of Georgians opposed, according to a poll carried out by the Caucasus Resource Research Center for the US-based National Democratic Institute. But Ivanishvili has said he wants to break Georgia’s "savior" complex-- the tendency to have charismatic and authoritative leaders elected with a strong majority of the vote but then ultimately end up as disappointments.

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