Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hard-line critic of the West, was sworn in as Georgia’s president today amid a political crisis in the South Caucasus country, whose government has frozen its European Union membership talks, prompting major protests. The former soccer player and known for his ultra-conservative and anti-Western positions Kavelashvili was sworn in during a short ceremony in Parliament. Minutes earlier, outgoing pro-European president Salome Zourabisvili, who is critical of the ruling party, said in a speech to supporters outside the presidential palace that she was leaving the presidential residence but remained the country’s “only legitimate president,” vowing to fight against the ruling Georgian Dream party. Zurabishvili maintains that Kavelashvili was not elected in a proper way, as the MPs who voted for him were elected in parliamentary elections in October that she says were marred by fraud. The opposition parties in Georgia support her. The ruling Georgian Dream party and the electoral commission […]
Source: News Beast
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