On Saturday, the Georgian parliament will elect a brand new president, whereas EU leaders fear that the selection could sign additional distancing from the EU.
ADVERTISEMENTToday Radio Schuman dives into this weekend’s presidential election in Georgia with Euronews on the bottom correspondent in Tblisi, Nuka Kekelia, asking what’s at stake for the nation’s ties with the EU.
Georgia has not too long ago skilled weeks of protests following parliamentary elections that secured a win for the ruling Georgian Dream celebration. In the aftermath, the celebration introduced plans to droop efforts to hitch the European Union.
Although the presidency in Georgia is basically ceremonial, this election is important because it marks the primary time because the 2017 constitutional reforms that the president might be chosen by parliament relatively than by fashionable vote. The present president, Salome Zourabichvili, represents the pro-EU opposition and has persistently criticised Georgian Dream as extra equivocal in direction of the EU. Zourabichvili has refused to recognise the outcomes of the parliamentary elections and pledged to stay in workplace till new elections are held.
Georgian Dream has nominated Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former soccer participant with Eurosceptic views, as its presidential candidate.
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