Georgia’s Ex-President Saakashvili Seeks to Return in Election
- Saakashvili would lead government if opposition wins election
- Leader of Rose Revolution was stripped of citizenship in 2015
Mikheil Saakashvili
Photographer: Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
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Georgia’s opposition coalition said ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili will become prime minister if it wins parliamentary elections next month, proposing a dramatic comeback from exile of the leader of the country’s Rose Revolution.
The United National Movement and 10 other parties agreed to back Saakashvili’s candidacy to lead their bloc if they win the Oct. 31 elections, UNM party chairman Grigol Vashadze said at a press conference in the capital, Tbilisi, on Monday.