Friday, December 5, 2025

Ivanishvili picks Margvelashvili as candidate for president

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Giorgi Margvelashvili looks likely to become Georgia’s next president, if the latest poll is correct. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Dream coalition has chosen Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili as its candidate for president in the upcoming election.

“Giorgi Margvelashvili has all good skills to be a president,” Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said at

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Student protest at Agriculture University

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Education Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili met the students Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For the last two days, students at an agricultural college have been at the center of a dispute between the governing Georgian Dream coalition and supporters of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

The dispute began with the

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Saakashvili: “We basically got what we wanted to get”

Giorgi Margvelashvili is a PhD in philosophy.

– Right!

What we did not get was, something that was in the preliminary statement of the White House, stating that: “The President will reconfirm U.S. support for the integrity of Georgia’s territory within its internationally recognized borders”. We did not hear that; and really lacked that

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