the election of a pro-Russian president worsens the political crisis

A humiliation. This is how the pro-European demonstrators perceived the election, on Saturday, of the man they refuse to consider as their new president. « I came with my diploma, framed. I am more qualified than Kavelachvili to be head of state », Levan Gagachidze, a thirty-year-old businessman, said in front of a cordon of police officers, his “mortarboard” (hat worn during graduation in American universities) on his head. While some were displaying their diplomas on this cold and snowy Sunday morning of December 15, others were playing football on Roustaveli Avenue. « Playing ball is all Kavelashvili can do, right? “, blurted out a civil aviation official while dribbling.

Beyond the ability to assume the function of head of state, which is largely ceremonial but still has a certain aura, Mikhail Kavelashvili is especially criticized