In Georgia, ex-footballer Mikhail Kavelashvili was elected on Saturday December 14 to succeed pro-European President Salomé Zourabichvili. A victory for the pro-Russian party in power, the Georgian Dream, which comes in a context of high tensions. For more than three weeks, pro-European demonstrations have shaken the country, contesting the results of the legislative elections of October 26, won by this same party. The situation is even more tense since the government’s announcement to freeze Georgia’s accession negotiations to the European Union until 2028. Interview with Silvia Serrano, political scientist, professor at Sorbonne University, researcher at the EUR’ORBEM laboratory and at the Center for the Study of the Russian, Caucasian and Central European Worlds.
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