Citing past praise by US president-elect Donald Trump for his reforms, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili launched a new political party in Ukraine yesterday to fight corruption, just days after resigning bitterly as a regional governor.Saakashvili, who is widely credited with cracking down on graft when he led Georgia from 2004 till 2013, quit as governor of the coastal Odessa region on Monday, accusing his erstwhile patron, President Petro Poroshenko, of blocking his reforms there.His political allies said his repeated criticism of authorities in Kiev had made him a target of political infighting.At a news conference in Kiev, Saakashvili played …read more
Source: Gulf times
