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Government Party Georgian dream This Wednesday he named the former football player Mikhail Kavelashvili How presidential candidate this will happen next December 14 in a country that plunged into a political crisis after the parliamentary elections on October 26, that according to the opposition and the current head of state, Salome Zurabishvili, were developed fraudulently.
Founder and honorary member of the party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, announced the appointment Kavelashvili, He is one of the co-founders People Power Party, what’s happened split from Suegno Giorgiano in 2022 and stood out with his harsh anti-Western statements.
Kavelashvili, 53 years old, played Manchester City from 1995 to 1997. and is remembered for scoring a goal in his debut match against Manchester United in April 1996, losing 3-2 at the now demolished stadium Maine Road Stadium weeks before the team led Alan Ball relegated from the Premier League.
Manchester City, in which the Georgian international also Georgy Kinkladze won after his signing in the summer of 1995, He chose Kavelashvili to save himself from relegation. when he joined him from Tbilisi Dynamo transfer closing day. Despite adding seven points in his last three games, The team was eliminated due to goal difference. as he added just two points in the first eleven.
He scored two more goals for England. in the Premier League, where they took 14th place, but he didn’t manage to play enough games renew your work permit. He was loaned to Swiss Grasshoppers. and left for good the following summer.
The former Georgian player is the latest in series of former football players running for public office in Georgia. Former Milan defender Kakha Kaladzewho won the Champions League in 2003 and 2007, is the mayor of the capital, Tbilisi, since 2017; and the former defender of Schalke and Hertha Berlin, Levan Kobiashvili, eMember of the Parliament of Georgia.
People power is currently in the coalition government of Georgia and has nine deputies in parliament.
Kavelashvili was number 18 on the party list. for parliamentary elections. Ivanishvili, For his part, he praised the current presidential candidate and indicated that he has a profile “patriotic and honest.”
“This is great personification of the character of a Georgian man and his country. He is a wonderful husband and father to his four children,” he said.
He also assured that “violation of the Constitution” and Zurabishvili’s “betrayal” will “remain in the past”Georgian media reported this.
However, last week the President presented an appeal to Constitutional Court in an attempt annul the results of parliamentary elections in which, as stated, the government party Georgian Dream committed the crime of rigging the election results.
Since the filing of the appeal, on November 19 last year, the court has held month to give your verdict.
Zurabishvili recently announced his intention to hold new elections after accusing the ruling party of a power grab after winning the election with just over 53 percent of the vote. The president stressed that although Georgian society “is European and democratic,” it is subject to “a one-party government that has taken over the management of institutions.”