Georgians arrived at polling stations on Saturday to vote in parliamentary elections that will decide whether the country has a future in the EU.

Citizens will decide between Georgian Dream, the increasingly anti-Western ruling party, and a pro-Western opposition alliance committed to becoming an EU member state.

At a voting station in the capital Tbilisi on Saturday morning, Ivane Maisaia, 35, said he voted for the opposition to guarantee a European future for his eight-year-old daughter.

Mr Maisaia said he was concerned Georgian Dream would refuse to give up power if they lost the vote. If that becomes the case, he said: “It’s our duty as a country to protest.”

During factious campaigning, the ruling party accused the opposition of conspiring to instigate a war with Russia.