Friday, September 19 2014

Tbilisi. President of Georgia, Giorgi
Margvelashvili, does not intend to form the oppositional force, ZAkaria
Kutsnashvili, one of the leaders of the parliamentary majority stated according
to results of a meeting with the head of the state on Tuesday, September
16.     

Relations between the Georgian Dream
leader, PM Gharibashvili and President Margvelashvili have been actively
discussed in Mass Media. There have been speculations that Premier
Gharibashvili is 'side- shifting' the head of state when the matter concerns
the issues that are crucial for the country. 
Margevlashvili-Gharibashvili confrontation has been in focus again after
they failed to agree on who should attend the 69th session of the UN General
Assembly.

"The main result (of the meeting) is
that President Margvelashvili does not consider himself to be a competitor to
the political power. He excludes formation of any political opposition force at
the present time and in future", Kutsnashvili stated on air of the
Georgian TV Company Maestro.

Earlier, ex-premier of Georgia, Bidzina
Ivanishvili, stated that in Margvelashvili's 
opinion, he was to compete with the government and the parliament of
Georgia. According to Ivanishvili, he failed to persuade the head of the state.
Margvelashvili  responded to the critics
and stated that he did not compete with the government and had never attempted
to make obstacles for the activity of different power structures.

It should be noted that Bidzian
Ivansihvili set up the Georgian Dream coalition, which later became the ruling
force in the country. In due time, he nominated Margvelashvili for the post of
the President of Georgia.

The relations between the current premier
and the President became more tensed  in
connection with a visit of the Georgian delegation to the 69th Session of the
UN General Assembly.  

The Georgian Foreign Ministry held
consultations with the President's Administration so that Margvelashvili would
refuse to go to the UN GA Session, scheduled for September 21-30. Georgian
Foreign Ministry insisted on sending one delegation, headed by the Prime
Minister Irakli Gharibashvili, to the UN GA and considered that a trip of two
delegations would "seriously affect Georgia's image". As a result, on
September 11, Giorgi Margvelashvili, announced that his intended visit was
"thwarted".