Friday, December 5, 2025

Saakashvili's party compares Ivanishvili with Chavez and Castro

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The opposition National Movement party in Georgia compares Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro after statements he made at a press conference Tuesday.

Ivanishvili was summing up his first hundred days of being in

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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 and Ivanishvili seen in rare tète-à-tète

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (left) and President Mikheil Saakashvili (right). (Photo published by Ivanishvili.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian President and Prime Minister, who only have met once after the parliamentary election, Sunday celebrated the jubilee of the Georgian patriarch and shared what seemed to be a serious conversation.

Last time the two leaders met

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Saakashvili appoints official accused of corruption as governor

President Mikheil Saakashvili claims police have started accepting bribes in Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvil has appointed a former government official who has twice been detained after the change of government as new governor in the Samegrelo region.

Tengiz Gunava used to be Chairman of the General Inspection

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