Avakovsky Tabaki-Gerashchenko does not hide his gloating over Saakashvili’s resignation

Verkhovna Rada deputy Anton Gerashchenko, a loyal assistant to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, could not hide his joy at the news of the resignation of Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili. As you know, Avakov and Saakashvili have a particularly “warm” relationship, which recently resulted in the famous “be-be-be-be” ​​skirmish in the presence of President Petro Poroshenko.

Saakashvili, who was recently advertised in Ukraine as a great reformer, is now, according to Gerashchenko, an egoist, an authoritarian leader and a destroyer.

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“Mikheil Saakashvili resigned. This has been expected for a long time. What he and his team succeeded in Georgia 10 years ago could not be achieved in Ukraine for various reasons.

Here are some of them.

The relative success of Georgian reforms became possible not so much thanks to Mikheil Saakashvili, but thanks to the unique team of democrats who united for a better future for Georgia in 2003-2007.

There were Kakha Bendukidze and Nino Burjanadze, and Zurab Zhvania, who died under strange circumstances. In this team, Mikheil Saakashvili played the role of the destroyer of the old corrupt system, but there were those who built a new Georgia.

However, Saakashvili’s selfishness and totalitarian habits destroyed this team already in 2007. And further history only led Saakashvili to an inglorious departure and expulsion from Georgia.

And all the positive achievements were leveled, including because the reforms were carried out with massive violations of human rights, and the corruption eradicated at the lower levels of power was preserved and multiplied in the highest echelons of power and Mikheil Saakashvili’s inner circle.

Petro Poroshenko, who knew Mikheil Saakashvili since his studies in Kyiv, invited him and members of his team to Ukraine. On the one hand, he wanted to use Saakashvili’s popularity and the experience of the Georgian team to imitate reforms, and on the other hand, he used Mikheil Saakashvili as a battering ram that was supposed to smash his political enemies to pieces.

The appointment of Mikheil Saakashvili as head of the Odessa Regional State Administration was not accidental. He was placed there to clear Odessa of Kolomoisky’s team, which Mikhail did brilliantly in a few weeks. True, Igor Valerievich did not particularly resist. His main battles with the presidential team seem to be yet to come.

Mikhail was then used as a battering ram against Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. He was promised that if Yatsenyuk clings to his place, the President will dissolve parliament, there will be new elections and Saakashvili will lead an entire party to parliament, and then he may become the prime minister of Ukraine.

He believed and with triple force joined in the criticism of the prime minister and members of his team, which culminated in a conflict with Arsen Avakov at the reform council in December last year.

When the president achieved his goal, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk gave up his place to Petro Poroshenko’s protege, Vladimir Groysman, Mikheil Saakashvili became redundant and unnecessary.

Moreover, it was out of control. He began to hold meaningless anti-corruption forums, which are nothing more than personal PR campaigns. He began to form around himself a circle of sympathetic businessmen who financed him and his team, and created, through someone else’s hands, his own party, which included his closest associates, led by David Sakvaredlidze.

True, this party has not yet shown itself to be anything special. For the last six months, Saakashvili’s team, forgetting about Odessa, was busy with the elections in Georgia, which they were not destined to win.

Now, after the failure in the elections in Georgia and the complete lack of support from the president, Saakashvili simply had no other choice but to resign.

Let's be honest - Mikheil Saakashvili did not and could not succeed in being a good governor in Ukraine. He is a born destroyer. But he did not assemble a team of builders in Odessa, like the one he had in Georgia...

I predict that most likely the majority of members of the so-called Saakashvili team will soon leave their positions in the Ukrainian government, except for those few who want to work for the benefit of our country without PR,” Gerashchenko wrote on his blog.