| Author (Person) | Matusiak, Marek |
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| Publisher | Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) |
| Series Title | OSW Analyses |
| Series Details | 05.11.14 |
| Publication Date | 05/11/2014 |
| Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
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On 4 November 2014, the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili sacked the defence minister Irakli Alasania. The foreign minister Maya Panjikidze and the minister for integration with the EU and NATO Aleksi Petriashvili also left their posts. Alasania’s party, the Free Democrats (FD), have left the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) coalition. The sequence of events that led to the minister’s resignation began on 28 October with the arrest of several high-ranking Defence Ministry officials on suspicion of corruption. Alasania declared his confidence in his colleagues, calling the arrests political and a blow to Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic ambitions, and – after his resignation – called for the consolidation of all the pro-Western forces in the country. The country’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili expressed his indirect support for the former minister. |
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| Source Link | http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2014-11-05/political-crisis-georgia-which-way-next |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe, Georgia |
