The pro-Russian Mikhail Kavelashvili He was elected president of Georgia after a vote carried out in Parliament, as announced by the Central Electoral Commission of the Caucasian republic.
Kavelashvili, who obtained the support of 224 of the 300 national and municipal deputies summoned, replaces the pro-European opposition in office Salome Zurabishvili. However, Zurabishvili refuses to leave office, since he does not recognize the legitimacy of the current Parliament, which emerged from last October’s elections, according to the DW site.
With this appointment, Kavelashvili, the only candidate in dispute, He becomes Georgia’s sixth president since the country declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Kavelashvili’s career
Nominated by the ruling Georgian Dream (SG) party, Kavelashvili began his political career in 2016 as an official deputy, after standing out in the sporting field as a footballer, even playing for Manchester City.
Born in 1971, Mijail Kavelashvili is founder of The Strength of the Peoplea movement that He promoted the approval of laws against foreign influence and sexual minorities. These regulations, condemned by both the opposition and Western countries, have been compared to those enacted in Russia to repress the opposition and the homosexual community.
Since November 28, whenThe Government decided to freeze the negotiations for Georgia’s entry into the European Unionthe opposition has intensified its protests in Tbilisi, gathering since the early hours of the morning in front of Parliament.
“Slaves” and “Russians” are some of the chants of the protesters, who consider it an offense that the new president lacks higher education. For her part, Salomé Zurabishvili, president of Georgia since 2018, reiterated in a press conference that she will not resign from her position, describing the vote as an “anti-constitutional travesty” and urging the mobilizations to continue.
Zurabishvili, who questions the legitimacy of the October parliamentary elections and the victory of the ruling party Georgian Dreamstated that an illegitimate Parliament cannot elect a new president.
Meanwhile, The authorities have warned the outgoing president, whose term ends on December 29, that he does not resort to the Army or the Police to confront the Government, since such action would be considered a crime.
Source: Ambito
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