Friday, March 27, 2026

Tbilisi mayor fails to appear for questioning

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“If anyone has illusions that I am leaving and won’t come back, I will tell them that I cannot grant such a pleasure to Ivanishvili, Kbilashvili, Tsulukiani and the others,” says Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Tbilisi mayor and staunch Saakshvili ally Gigi Ugulava failed to show up for questioning at the Finance Ministry’s Investigative Service today.

He was called to explain himself regarding a case of suspected embezzlement of five million lari

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Saakashvili's party recruiting people to weaken government

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Impatient. National Movement Secretary Vano Merabishvili can’t wait four years for the next election. “There are other methods,” he says. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili’s political party says it can’t wait four years for a change of power and instead will try to ‘weaken’ the Ivanishvili government.

Secretary General of the National Movement, Vano Merabisvhili, says they do not plan

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Saakashvili says pressure is used to force vote

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President Mikheil Saakashvili holding a photo of a sleeping Gubaz Sanikidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili says that the governing Georgian Dream coalition is unable to gather together a constitutional majority in parliament – that’s why they are threatening the opposition.

Saakashvili said this while visiting Kutaisi,

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