Published on November 29, 2024 at 7:59 p.m. / Modified on November 29, 2024 at 9:15 p.m.
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Georgian Dream, the ruling party in Georgia, last Wednesday chose former footballer Mikhail Kavelashvili as its candidate for president in the December 14 election.
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From Zurich to Basel, via Sion, for ten years, from 1997 to 2007, the player set foot on Swiss pitches.
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Elected in 2016 to the Georgian Parliament under the colors of the ruling party, Mikhail Kavelashvili adopted anti-Western rhetoric.
At FC Zurich, they became friends, particularly because they did not speak German. “And then, he lived with his little family right next to me,” remembers Frédéric Chassot. Since the day before, the Friborg striker has been bombarded with phone calls: “Have you seen about Mikhail?” Mikhail Kavelashvili, his former teammate, is the ruling party’s candidate for the Georgian presidential election which will be held on December 14. A month after legislative elections marred by irregularities and won by the Georgian Dream party, the Caucasian country is going through a period of political turbulence: the opposition boycotts parliament and demonstrations follow one another. Without the power, held in the shadows by the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, bending.
From his Georgian friend, Frédéric Chassot was used to receiving news once or twice a year. In June, after Georgia’s encouraging results for its first participation in a Euro, he sent him a message. “We finally talked for about twenty minutes on the phone, I teased him about the level of football in his country. He was happy, happy to be in Georgia,” specifies the former footballer.
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