
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, after the opposition’s victory in the parliamentary elections, will try to preserve power in their hands at the expense of single -mandate. As RIA Novosti reports, President Putin stated this. "Saakashvili will cling to power. I think that he will try to play losing on the lists in single -mandate districts," Putin said in an interview with NTV Central Television.
At the same time, Putin said that it would not be difficult for him to transfer power when the time comes to leave their post. "If I went to change the constitution and stay longer as president, then it would mean that I have no readiness to part with these instruments, the levers of power," Putin said. "He reminded that in 2008 he had already left the presidential post." Then almost all the levers of the state was given to his successor, elected president Dmitry Medvedev, who was not only because I was elected not just because He recommended, but also based on his program, moral and business qualities, sympathy, ”Putin said.
According to Putin, many people think that after leaving the President’s post, he retained all the levers of power. “This is not so. I left and gave these levers. Well, if I did this once, I didn’t grab onto the famous phones, then I already have such experience. And it will not be difficult to do this for the second time,” Putin concluded.
On October 2, Mikhail Saakashvili recognized the defeat of his party "Unified National Movement". He also stated that his party is going into opposition. “The views of the Georgian Dream were fundamentally unacceptable to me. There is a deep difference between us. And we believe that their views are extremely incorrect. But democracy works in such a way that the majority of the Georgian people make decisions, and we respect this choice,” Sakashvili said.
The Operational Block Operational Block Bijanina Ivanishvili, after counting all the protocols, is the leader in the party lists with 54.85 percent of the vote, the party of Mikhail Saakashvili scored 40.43 percent. The results in single -mandate districts have not yet been published.