Georgia’s parliament will elect a brand new president on Saturday, as European leaders concern the selection may sign an extra shift away from the EU.
Today Radio Schuman dives into this weekend’s presidential elections in Georgia with Euronews correspondent in Tbilisi, Nuka Kekelia, asking what’s at stake for the nation’s ties with the EU.
Georgia has not too long ago skilled weeks of protests following parliamentary elections that ensured the victory of the ruling Georgian Dream social gathering. The social gathering later introduced plans to droop efforts to affix the European Union.
Although the presidency in Georgia is essentially ceremonial, this election is critical because it marks the primary time for the reason that 2017 constitutional reforms that the president can be chosen by parliament moderately than by widespread vote. The present president, Salome Zourabichvili, represents the pro-EU opposition and has constantly criticized the Georgian Dream as extra equivocal in direction of the EU. Zourabichvili refused to acknowledge the outcomes of the parliamentary elections and pledged to stay in workplace till new elections have been held.
Georgian Dream has nominated Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former footballer with Eurosceptic views, as its presidential candidate.
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