Saakashvili Palace will be left without outdoor lighting

The administration of the President of Georgia
She decided to disable the outer lighting of the President's Palace.
As stated in the statement of the press secretary widespread on Tuesday
President Manana Mandzhgalaladze, the decision to disable lighting is due to the fact that according to the draft new budget, financing of the presidential administration will be reduced.

She noted that the lighting would not be disconnected around the perimeter,
Which is protected in order to ensure security, but most of the lighting of the administration will be disconnected.

The press secretary also said that the coverage of the presidential palace
The city decorated, but the administration is forced to agree with the reduction in financing from the budget, Interfax reports.

Earlier, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said that
President’s service is underway from the budget, which, in his opinion, is unacceptable. He called on the president to move from a comfortable palace to a less comfortable but suitable for work by the president’s residence in the government office.

Last week, Ivanishvili emphasized that since 2013 he has become the first person of the state and the presidential palace must go into its subordination, although he does not intend to move there. At a briefing on Friday, he said that he would continue to work in the building of the State Council - there he is currently working there.

The construction of the President’s Palace began in 2004 and ended in 2009. According to the media, the building cost the country's budget in several tens of millions of dollars. One dome of the residence consists of 12 bulletproof quadrangular glass fragments, the price of each of which was 56 thousand dollars in 2009. In recent years, criticism has repeatedly sounded to Saakashvili for the use of huge funds for the construction of this fashionable structure.

On the website of the President of Georgia, you can take a virtual walk around the palace - visit the lobby, the president’s reception, the dome hall and even under the very dome and evaluate the strict luxury of the decoration of the interiors.

In the 12 -story building of the State Council, built in the 1980s for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Republic, since 1992 the government has been sitting, in 1992 - 2003, President Eduard Shevardnadze worked, and in 2004 - 2008 - Mikhail Saakashvili.