On Tbilisi’s central square, activists backing ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili have camped out in protest of the outcome of the recent presidential elections in Georgia. There is a strange sense of déjà vu from the time Saakashvili himself was in power, when protesters—among them Georgia’s new President, Salome Zurabishvili—blocked the main thoroughfare of Tbilisi with tents to protest his leadership. Zurabishvili, a French-born ex-diplomat of Georgian descent, was inaugurated on Sunday. The presidency has been reduced to a largely symbolic role in Georgia, so the election itself was not terribly consequential. But the vote was seen as a referendum on the …read more
Source: The American Interest
