MADRID 7 Oct. () –
This Monday, the ruling Georgian Dream party began a new procedure to remove the country’s president, Salomé Zurabishvili, just a couple of weeks before the parliamentary elections on October 26 and the expiration of her term this year.
The president of Parliament and deputy of Georgian Dream, Shalva Papuashvili, explained that the measure is motivated by Zurabishvili’s continuous visits abroad “without the mandatory consent of the Government.”
Papuashvili has said that Zurabishvili has already been declared in violation of Article 52 of the Constitution for having traveled without the consent of the Government. By continuing to do so, and being welcomed by foreign leaders despite this, she allegedly incurred a “disrespect” for the Georgian people and “a violation of the principle of non-interference.”
Likewise, Papuashvili recalled that despite the ruling, Zurabishvili managed to retain his position thanks to the support of opposition deputies. Since then he would have continued violating the Constitution by recently visiting countries such as France, Germany, Poland and Belgium, Georgian media report.
Thus, he has announced that the new complaint will be presented to the Constitutional Court before the next elections. “The will of the Georgian people finds a special reflection in our Constitution, so its deliberate, open and brazen violation cannot go unanswered,” he concluded.
Last September, Sueño Georgiano tried unsuccessfully to hold a political trial against the president, after failing to obtain at least one hundred supports within Parliament to begin the process.
On this occasion, his dismissal would have a merely “symbolic” burden, acknowledges the Georgian Dream deputy and president of Parliament, since Zurabishvili’s mandate ends this year and would only be shortened by a month, although it would serve as a precedent to prevent ” arbitrariness in the future and strengthen Georgian democracy.
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