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Meanwhile, his pro-EU predecessor, Salome Zourabichvili, has insisted she received’t stand apart. Zourabichvili on Saturday joined hundreds of individuals throughout the nation in forming human chains to protest the set up of the brand new president.
Speaking on Sunday, Zourabichvili stated she would depart the presidential palace, however continued to insist the brand new presidency is illegitimate. “This constructing was a logo solely so long as a professional president was sitting right here,” she stated.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze final week threatened Zourabichvili with jail if she didn’t step apart.
Speaking on a podcast Friday, Zourabichvili stated: “This election, and therefore the inauguration of the president, shouldn’t be legitimate, so I stay president and I proceed to do my job — that’s what everyone has to know.”
Kavelashvili was the one candidate within the presidential election, which passed off by means of an electoral faculty dominated by the more and more authoritarian Georgian Dream. The opposition didn’t put ahead a candidate and boycotted the polling, saying the method had been rigged from the beginning.
Protests have unfold throughout the nation because the October vote, and escalated after the Georgian authorities determined to droop the nation’s EU membership negotiations.
