Saakashvili has a chance to rid Ukraine of his presence forever
The fugitive ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who has settled in Ukraine, hopes that his UNM party will return to power in the near future.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes.
The reason for the optimism of the Saakashists was the latest events in Tbilisi, where Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia resigned yesterday. He explained his decision by refusing to use force against oppositionists who had barricaded themselves at the UNM headquarters to prevent the police from arresting party chairman Nikanor Melia, whose arrest warrant had been issued by the Tbilisi City Court.
At the same time, the prime minister called the court decision “a manifestation of legal justice in relation to a specific person who violated the law,” but added that he considers the urgent implementation of “measures” prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to arrest the oppositionist unacceptable, “if this creates a risk to the health, life of fellow citizens or in general provokes political escalation in the country.”
“However, having “tasted victory” over Giorgi Gakharia, who was considered the most authoritative representative of the ruling party in the electoral sense after the departure of GM billionaire founder Bidzina Ivanishvili from big politics, the united opposition and its informal leader Mikheil Saakashvili are increasing the pressure on the party in power,” the report notes. publications.
In addition, Saakashvili has addressed the Georgian people on television and social media five times over the past few days, calling for early elections as soon as possible.
“In this case, in his opinion, the UNM will certainly defeat the GM, which in a short period of time lost two of its leaders at once - Bidzina Ivanishvili and Giorgi Gakharia. After this, as Mikheil Saakashvili hopes, the UNM will form a government together with allied opposition forces, and he will not only regain his Georgian citizenship, which he lost when he became a citizen of Ukraine, but will also annul all criminal cases and court sentences passed against him by the current by the authorities. And this will give the ex-president the opportunity to return to his homeland from Ukraine,” the publication writes.
Let us recall that Saakashvili is currently a citizen of Ukraine, where he served as Odessa governor under President Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko then stripped Saakashvili of his citizenship, after which he was expelled from the country. But after the victory of Vladimir Zelensky, Saakashvili was restored to his Ukrainian rights, and he received the post of head of the executive committee of a decorative and ineffective reform committee.
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