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Georgia’s first female president

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Salome Zura­bishvili

Salome Zura­bishvili has been elected the 5th president of Georgia in 28 November’s pres­i­den­tial runoff, winning 60% of votes according to pre­lim­i­nary results. Her win is historic, given that she is the first woman to run and succeed in the marathon for the pres­i­den­tial seat. Con­stant­ly empha­sis­ing her European origins, she has promised to help Georgia integrate into NATO and the EU and as she likes to say, ‘bring Georgian society together’.

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Georgian conservative groups come out against Vashadze for president

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'No to Nazism' rally on Freedom Square (on.ge)

Tens of thousands of people gathered on Tbilis’s Freedom Square on Sunday in a ‘No to Nazism’ rally organised by the con­ser­v­a­tive oppo­si­tion Alliance of Patriots party. [Read more…]

Georgian Government ‘printing fake ID cards’ for election fraud

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President election 2018 (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

Georgia’s Public Service Devel­op­ment Agency is printing fake ID documents in order to swing the country’s upcoming pres­i­den­tial election in favour Salome Zura­bishvili, who has been endorsed by the ruling Georgian Dream Party, three leading trans­paren­cy watchdogs have claimed. [Read more…]

PM promises to write off ₾1.5 billion in debts for 600,000 Georgians

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Mamuka Bakhtadze (/OC Media)

Georgia’s Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced plans to write off ₾1.5 billion ($570 million) in unpaid loans for ‘over 600,000’ people black­list­ed by Georgian banks. [Read more…]

Zurabishvili and family ‘receive death threats’ from opposition supporters

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Salome Zura­bishvili (centre) with her daughter Ketevan Gor­jes­tani and son Teimuraz Gor­jes­tani (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

 

Georgian Dream–endorsed pres­i­den­tial candidate Salome Zura­bishvili and members of her family received SMS and audio death threats from ‘former military officers’, she announced on Monday. [Read more…]

Georgian Dream MPs warn of ‘civil war’ if Vashadze elected

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Pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates Salome Zura­bishvili and Grigol Vashadze casting their ballots (Mari Nikuradze, Facebook)

Georgia’s political scene is heating up as the country braces for a pres­i­den­tial run-off election. After Georgian Dream–endorsed Salome Zura­bishvili failed to win a majority in the first round, members of the ruling party warned of ‘violence’ or a  ‘civil war’ if the opposition’s Grigol Vashadze comes out on top. [Read more…]

Protests erupt in South Ossetia as ex-president is refused registration as presidential candidate

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Tskhin­vali (Zarina Sanakoye­va Facebook)

Sup­port­ers of the former president of the de facto Republic of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoyty, are protest­ing demanding the res­ig­na­tion of the incumbent president, Leonid Tibilov, after Kokoyty was refused reg­is­tra­tion as a pres­i­den­tial candidate. [Read more…]

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