Monday, December 29, 2025

Poll shows massive support for Ivanishvili government

63% would vote for Bidzina Ivanishvili's candidate in the presidential election, a new poll shows. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Dream, the party of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili which recently took over government power, has about five times more support than the National Movement party of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

The is the result of a poll

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Georgian patriarch hosts Israeli ambassador

Georgia's Patriarch Ilia II (left), and Israel's Ambassador Yuval Fuchs (right) met at Mtskheta Thursday. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Patriarch Ilia II hosted Israeli Ambassador Yuval Fuchs and his wife at the Patriarch’s residence in Mtskheta, close to the capital.

Fuchs thanked Illia II for his merits in deepening relations between the two states in regards to

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Westerwelle asks Georgia to stay its course

Georgia's Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze (left) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (right) during a meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission in Brussels. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle says he hopes the change of government in Georgia won’t influence the country’s course towards NATO and the EU.

Westerwelle said this ahead of a meeting of the NATO-Georgia commission,

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