Friday, December 5, 2025

Ivanishivili changes plans: won't leave power

Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili has repeatedly said that if he won government power in Georgia, he would only keep it for a few years, and then leave politics. Now he says he might stay in power. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who recently became prime minister of Georgia, is considering going back on a promise to leave politics in a year and a half.

During the election campaign, Ivanishvili claimed that he would leave politics

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