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Saakashvili's victory, Joint Opposition, all other opposition candidates and number of NGOs declared the elections rigged and stated that police force was used to support this process. Similar developments took place during 2008 parliament elections, that being the reason for Levan Gachechiladze and several of his supporters to decline entry into the parliament.
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just that. Receiving two rounds of financing amounting to $ 150 thousand and $ 5+ million over the span of several years, Gachechiladze secured cross-border capital investment that at that time was unprecedented both in significance and size. The ultimate result of his effort was introduction of market economy mindset to the
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with more than half of all the votes (52.5%). Official results according to
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in party's group of "new faces" for election. In same year, Gachechiladze became member of parliament from district 2. In
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