Georgia Parliament elects pro-Russian Mikheil Kavelashvili as president

Le Monde

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A FORMER Premier League footballer has been appointed president of Georgia in a victory for mad Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
The Sun
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Opposition groups accuse Georgian Dream of rigging the October 26 parliamentary vote, backsliding on democracy and moving Tbilisi closer to Russia — all at the expense of the Caucasus nation's constitutionally mandated bid to join the European Union.
The Moscow Times
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Kavelashvili, 53, was the only candidate on the ballot and easily won the vote given the Georgian Dream party’s control of a 300-seat electoral college that replaced direct presidential elections in 2017.
HuffPost
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Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former football player and member of the Georgian Dream party, was elected president of Georgia on Saturday, marking a significant political shift in the South Caucasus nation.
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