Thursday, December 25, 2025

Saakashvili may have violated constitution

Constitutional expert Vakhtang Khmaladze says President Saakashvili's appointment of Vano Merabishvili as new prime minister is invalid because it violated the constitution.

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili’s appointment of a former interior minister as prime minister may have been in violation of the constitution, and therefore invalid.

One of Georgia’s most experienced constitutional experts, Vakhtang Khmaladze, says

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Georgia gets new minister for employment

Government reshuffle. Paata Trapaidze is to be employment minister, a new post. He was appointed by the new prime minister, Ivane Merabishvili, who himself was appointed Saturday by President Saakashvili. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili today presented his employment minister, which is a new post.

“I have initiative to set up specific Employment Ministry, which will take care to solve problems of employment. A database of unemployed

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Georgia to host UEFA Super Cup in 2015

UEFA Super Cup will be player at Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in Tbilisi August 14, 2015. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia will host UEFA Super Cup in August 2015. This will be the first time Georgia is host country for an UEFA event.

According to the Georgian Football Federation, the decision was made in Kiev on Saturday at a session of the executive committee.

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Field meeting in Abkhazia breaks down again

For a second time, a field meeting across borderlines in the conflict region Abkhazia has broken down before it started. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Again, a field meeting meant to defuse tension in the conflict region Abkhazia has broken down before it even started.

The meeting should have been held June 27, and was to have brought together operative leaders from the warring parties of 2008

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Ivanishvili gathers supporters in Georgia's old capital Mtskheta

Ivanishvili promised that fifty policemen who lost their jobs will get back to work if he wins. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian opposition figure head Bidzina Ivanishvili continued his tour of the country’s regions Sunday by staging a rally in the old capital Mtskheta, 20 km north of Tbilisi.

The rally started at 19:00 and saw the billionaire making new

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Education reformer who was fired makes comeback

Maia Miminoshvili comes back as head of a private consultancy that will make recommendations to her former employer, the Ministry of Education. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – An key figure in Georgia’s education reforms who was recently fired has made a comeback and launched her own consultancy to improve the education system.

“We plan to provide some recommendations to the Ministry of Education and vigorously

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Saakashvili's government has lacked long term plans

President Saakashvili's presidency has been a long list of stops and starts, with no long-term strategy, according to a new report. Here he is trying out a tractor for use in Georgia's agricultural sector. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – In the years from 2004 to 2011, the Georgian Parliament had ten votes of confidence for the government and approved ten government programs, although the programs changed each year and almost never followed the steps of the previous one.

This

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Saakashvili makes Merabishvili new prime minister

The iron minister. Merabishvili has been operative leader of several controversial police operations against street demonstrations. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili says he is appointing Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili as new prime minister.

Saakashvili announced the decision from his presidential palace in Tbilisi shortly before 19 local time Saturday. Imedi TV broke

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