Roundup of Georgian President Margvelashvili’s progress

A year has passed since Georgian Dream’s Giorgi Margvelashvili won the presidential polls with 62.11%. He was a protégé of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. Politologists Petre Mamradze, Nika Chitadze and Vakhtang Maisaya have commented on the president's term in office so far.

Petre Mamradze, the head of the Institute for Strategic Management, noted that a lot has changed since the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili. He noted that Margvelashvili had been a minister, then the president, favoured by Ivanishvili. Mamradze considers Margvelashvili a threat to Georgia's statehood and pointed out his controversies with the prime minister, like during the dispute about who should attend the UN General Assembly in the US.

According to Mamradze, Margvelashvili spends most of his time on PR. He pointed out that the president had informed Belgium and Luxembourg about cancelling a visit due to a session of the Georgian Security Council set for October 28, in the light of Russia’s plans to sign a military agreement with Abkhazia. Mamradze assumes that the document is if no threat to Georgia and the ballyhoo around it has a populist purpose.

A year has passed since Georgian Dream’s Giorgi Margvelashvili won the presidential polls with 62.11%. He was a protégé of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. Politologists Petre Mamradze, Nika Chitadze and Vakhtang Maisaya have commented on the president’s figure.Petre Mamradze, the head of the Institute for Strategic Management, noted that a lot had changed since the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili. He noted that Margvelashvili had been a minister, then the president, favoured by Ivanishvili. Mamradze considers Margvelashvili a threat for statehood and pointed out his controversies with the prime minister, like during the dispute about who should attend the UN General Assembly in the U.S.According to Mamradze, Margvelashvili spend most of his time on PR. He reminded that the president had informed Belgium and Luxembourg about cancelling a visit due to the session of the Georgian Security Council set for October 28, in the light of Russia’s plans to sign a military agreement with Abkhazia. Mamradze assumes that the document has no threat to Georgia and the ballyhoo around it has a populist purp