November 29 – Even should you not certified to run soccer, you will be president – in Georgia that’s.
Georgia’s ruling get together has controversially picked former worldwide and Manchester Metropolis striker Mikheil Kavelashvili as its candidate to steer the nation, sparking widespread protests.
Kavelashvili, an anti-Western hard-liner, was prevented from working for president of the nation’s FA subsequent yr as a result of he has no greater schooling.
Regardless of this the 53-year-old will now doubtless turn out to be Georgia’s subsequent president being all however sure to win the December 14 vote.
Present president Salome Zourabichvili, whose six-year time period expires subsequent month, was elected by standard vote. However the Georgian Dream get together has accredited constitutional modifications that abolished the direct election of the president and changed it with a vote by a 300-seat electoral faculty consisting of members of parliament, municipal councils and regional legislatures.
Critics have accused Georgian Dream of changing into more and more authoritarian and tilted towards Moscow. The get together lately pushed via legal guidelines just like these utilized by the Kremlin to crack down on freedom of speech.
Throughout his footballing profession, Kavelashvili performed for the Georgian nationwide staff, Dinamo Tbilisi and briefly for Manchester Metropolis within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
On Wednesday, Georgian Dream supremo Bidzina Ivanishvili introduced Kavelashvili’s candidacy to parliament, describing him as “one of the crucial distinguished members of our political staff” and praising his “vital contribution to defending Georgia’s nationwide pursuits and strengthening the nation’s sovereignty”.
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