Georgia’s opposition disputes the result of a crucial vote which could decide the country’s role in Europe

Georgian electoral observers who stationed thousands of people across the country to monitor the vote said there were multiple violations and the results ”do not correspond to the will of the Georgian people.”

The pre-election campaign in the South Caucasus nation of 3.7 million people, which borders Russia, was dominated by foreign policy and marked by a bitter fight for votes and allegations of a smear campaign.

Some Georgians complained of intimidation and being pressured to vote for Georgian Dream, while the opposition accused the party of carrying out a “hybrid war” against its citizens.

The biggest opposition party, United National Movement, said its headquarters came under attack on polling day. Georgian media also reported two people were hospitalized after being attacked outside polling stations, one in the western city of Zugdidi, the other in Marneuli, a town south of the capital, Tbilisi.

There were also reports of multiple voting irregularities.

One video shared on social media Saturday also showed a man stuffing ballots into a box at a polling station in Marneuli. Georgia’s Interior Ministry said it launched an investigation and the Central Election Commission said a criminal case had been opened and that all results from the polling station would be declared invalid.