Paradoxes of Georgia, or the Red Card to Mikhail Saakashvili from the Georgian people
Anyway, Georgia is an amazing state in the post-Soviet space from the point of view of power perturbations. Not a single Georgian president for all history independent Georgia did not retire after the expiration of the term of office.
If we take the first president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, his official authority ended in January 1992 after the insurgency led by Tengiz Kitovani was raised against him in the country. After the overthrow, Gamsakhurdia was forced to flee the country and during his overseas “tour” presented himself as the head of Georgia in the so-called alternative government (first in Armenia, and then in the Chechen Republic, headed at that time by Dzhokhar Dudayev). Zviad Gamsakhurdia returned to Georgia in 1993, however, his political career did not continue, and only three months after his return, the first president committed suicide in one of the Georgian villages (according to another version, Gamsakhurdia was killed).
For three years, Georgia was governed by the Military Council, then the State Council, which assumed the role of either parliament, or a kind of body of both legislative and executive power in one bottle. After a three-year history with the Soviets in non-Soviet Georgia, the figure of Eduard Shevardnadze, a former USSR foreign minister and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the USSR, loomed on local political Olympus. In 1995, Eduard Amvrosiyevich led Georgia as its second president in the entire new history of the country. In the 2003 year, however, he also had to leave his post in a far from democratic way. The announced Mikhail Saakashvili announced that Shevardnadze falsified the elections, and therefore the power from him must be taken away and transferred to the progressive forces at the head, in fact, with Mikhail Saakashvili himself. In general, the second president of independent Georgia left his post far from his will. The will of the "revolutionaries of roses" was stronger ...
Since the beginning of January, 2004, Mikhail Nikolozovich Saakashvili occupied the overbearing chair. But here's the deal ... Apparently, the hero of the South Ossetian war forgot that God loves the Trinity. But Mikhail Saakashvili is the third in a row ... It turns out that there will be disorder, if not all-Georgian cognitive dissonance, if Saakashvili suddenly “accepts” democratically until the fourth president takes office. Not according to the Georgian rules, these things will be, oh, not according to the Georgian ones ... If historically the presidents have been led to change insurrections, revolutions and pickets, then you need to adhere to this tradition until the end ...
And, most surprisingly, Georgia adheres. More than a million people put their signatures under a kind of requirement for the current president to immediately resign. And "more than a million" of 3,5 millions of Georgian voters - this is no less than a third. An impressive number - more than ...
But the Russian reader can say, but why are Georgian citizens so rigidly disposed? - They only have to wait a bit until the next presidential elections, and that's that. But here another strangeness manifests itself, which can be called no less surprising than, let us say, a peculiar change of the Georgian leadership. The strangeness is that the president of the current Georgian constitution is elected for a term of five years, but these five years can be stretched to 5,5, and to all six with a special desire. At the same time, the most interesting, the letter of the main law in terms of the documentary increase in the term of presidential powers does not change.
In other words, Mikhail Nikolozovich “started warning” at one time and made it so that even after the expiration of his term of office he can hold the presidency not for a couple of weeks or even months, but almost a year! After all, the next election will be held only in October 2013 ... This is plus nine months. But they still count there, until the official results will be announced, while the preparation for the inauguration is announced ... So the picture emerges, in which the Honorable Saakashvili will also endure Georgia in the presidential chair in the winter, spring, summer, and autumn. In general, a democratic approach to the definition of a presidential term - nothing can be said ...
If someone now asks, so how long is the actual presidential term in Georgia, then this question can be answered: “Five years with a hook” is almost the official version of the time interval when the beginning is known, but with the end it’s not so definitely ...
It is precisely “with hook” that brings the Georgian people to a white-hot, when people actually feel deceived and take to the streets of cities in order to influence Mikhail Nikolozovich to quickly pack his bags and go to where he can rethink everything. he led Georgia in recent years.
And there is something to rethink ... And this is not only a senseless invasion of South Ossetia in 2008, accompanied by a huge stream of informational (or rather, disinformational) propaganda. This is the actual loss of the territories that, during the years of Mikhail Saakashvili’s rule, turned into independent states.
It is also a practically complete rupture of any relations with Russia, which hurt both the economic and the cultural binder of the two states. Most of the citizens of both Georgia and Russia were well aware that Georgia turned out to be a hostage of big politics, which is dictated not even from the presidential palace of Saakashvili, but from completely different places. However, the Georgian president continued his frankly Russophobic rhetoric, trying to enlist the support of the West to solve the outlined tasks.
However, as time went on, Mikhail Saakashvili began to receive less and less of that very expected support from across the ocean. The defeat of his party in the parliamentary elections last year finally showed that the still-acting Georgian president had become a political corpse not only for his ideal, the West, but also for the majority of citizens of his own country.
Saakashvili’s ambitious projects, which were presented as gains of democracy, but remained unfulfilled, today eloquently show that the activities of the third Georgian president in his post can be thought of as a balloon that has been swelling for a long time. This ball today found a hefty hole, and the outgoing air causes it to rush from side to side.
Such buried projects include the planned production boom in Georgia in the middle of the 2000-s. Saakashvili planned to expand large-scale production and to enter one of the leading economic places not only in the region, but also in the expanses of the entire post-Soviet space. However, the economic indicators of Georgia today are far from impressive. The industrial sector today occupies only about 9% of the entire financial and economic system of the country. Gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity is about $ 5500. This is in 2 times lower than the analogous indicator of Azerbaijan, in 4 times lower than the similar indicator in Russia. In terms of GDP, per capita GDP, Georgia is now at the level of such countries as Namibia and Guatemala. The average pension in Georgia for 2012 was about 125 GEL - 2212 rubles. At the same time, the cost of electricity alone in Georgia is about 3 rubles per 1 kWh (comparable to Russian prices with, to put it mildly, different income levels of the population).
The far from cloudless economic situation in Georgia makes people quite actively seek work in the territory of foreign states. In Russia - including. And this, by the way, is not only about ordinary citizens, but also about some state officials. In particular, the current Prime Minister recalled just before preparing for elections in Georgia that the Georgian passport was more weighty for him than a Russian one, and that after active earnings for two decades in Russia, it would be time to test our political forces at home. In general, someone is leaving, but this one has arrived. And he came, obviously, to make a controlling political "shot" at Mikhail Saakashvili.
And although contacts between Russia and Georgia remain far from rosy, the hope still remains that after the end of the era of Mr. Saakashvili, as president of Georgia, there will be obvious advances in bilateral relations. Well, that does not leave, and that's it ...
If we take the first president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, his official authority ended in January 1992 after the insurgency led by Tengiz Kitovani was raised against him in the country. After the overthrow, Gamsakhurdia was forced to flee the country and during his overseas “tour” presented himself as the head of Georgia in the so-called alternative government (first in Armenia, and then in the Chechen Republic, headed at that time by Dzhokhar Dudayev). Zviad Gamsakhurdia returned to Georgia in 1993, however, his political career did not continue, and only three months after his return, the first president committed suicide in one of the Georgian villages (according to another version, Gamsakhurdia was killed).
For three years, Georgia was governed by the Military Council, then the State Council, which assumed the role of either parliament, or a kind of body of both legislative and executive power in one bottle. After a three-year history with the Soviets in non-Soviet Georgia, the figure of Eduard Shevardnadze, a former USSR foreign minister and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the USSR, loomed on local political Olympus. In 1995, Eduard Amvrosiyevich led Georgia as its second president in the entire new history of the country. In the 2003 year, however, he also had to leave his post in a far from democratic way. The announced Mikhail Saakashvili announced that Shevardnadze falsified the elections, and therefore the power from him must be taken away and transferred to the progressive forces at the head, in fact, with Mikhail Saakashvili himself. In general, the second president of independent Georgia left his post far from his will. The will of the "revolutionaries of roses" was stronger ...
Since the beginning of January, 2004, Mikhail Nikolozovich Saakashvili occupied the overbearing chair. But here's the deal ... Apparently, the hero of the South Ossetian war forgot that God loves the Trinity. But Mikhail Saakashvili is the third in a row ... It turns out that there will be disorder, if not all-Georgian cognitive dissonance, if Saakashvili suddenly “accepts” democratically until the fourth president takes office. Not according to the Georgian rules, these things will be, oh, not according to the Georgian ones ... If historically the presidents have been led to change insurrections, revolutions and pickets, then you need to adhere to this tradition until the end ...
And, most surprisingly, Georgia adheres. More than a million people put their signatures under a kind of requirement for the current president to immediately resign. And "more than a million" of 3,5 millions of Georgian voters - this is no less than a third. An impressive number - more than ...
But the Russian reader can say, but why are Georgian citizens so rigidly disposed? - They only have to wait a bit until the next presidential elections, and that's that. But here another strangeness manifests itself, which can be called no less surprising than, let us say, a peculiar change of the Georgian leadership. The strangeness is that the president of the current Georgian constitution is elected for a term of five years, but these five years can be stretched to 5,5, and to all six with a special desire. At the same time, the most interesting, the letter of the main law in terms of the documentary increase in the term of presidential powers does not change.
In other words, Mikhail Nikolozovich “started warning” at one time and made it so that even after the expiration of his term of office he can hold the presidency not for a couple of weeks or even months, but almost a year! After all, the next election will be held only in October 2013 ... This is plus nine months. But they still count there, until the official results will be announced, while the preparation for the inauguration is announced ... So the picture emerges, in which the Honorable Saakashvili will also endure Georgia in the presidential chair in the winter, spring, summer, and autumn. In general, a democratic approach to the definition of a presidential term - nothing can be said ...
If someone now asks, so how long is the actual presidential term in Georgia, then this question can be answered: “Five years with a hook” is almost the official version of the time interval when the beginning is known, but with the end it’s not so definitely ...
It is precisely “with hook” that brings the Georgian people to a white-hot, when people actually feel deceived and take to the streets of cities in order to influence Mikhail Nikolozovich to quickly pack his bags and go to where he can rethink everything. he led Georgia in recent years.
And there is something to rethink ... And this is not only a senseless invasion of South Ossetia in 2008, accompanied by a huge stream of informational (or rather, disinformational) propaganda. This is the actual loss of the territories that, during the years of Mikhail Saakashvili’s rule, turned into independent states.
It is also a practically complete rupture of any relations with Russia, which hurt both the economic and the cultural binder of the two states. Most of the citizens of both Georgia and Russia were well aware that Georgia turned out to be a hostage of big politics, which is dictated not even from the presidential palace of Saakashvili, but from completely different places. However, the Georgian president continued his frankly Russophobic rhetoric, trying to enlist the support of the West to solve the outlined tasks.
However, as time went on, Mikhail Saakashvili began to receive less and less of that very expected support from across the ocean. The defeat of his party in the parliamentary elections last year finally showed that the still-acting Georgian president had become a political corpse not only for his ideal, the West, but also for the majority of citizens of his own country.
Saakashvili’s ambitious projects, which were presented as gains of democracy, but remained unfulfilled, today eloquently show that the activities of the third Georgian president in his post can be thought of as a balloon that has been swelling for a long time. This ball today found a hefty hole, and the outgoing air causes it to rush from side to side.
Such buried projects include the planned production boom in Georgia in the middle of the 2000-s. Saakashvili planned to expand large-scale production and to enter one of the leading economic places not only in the region, but also in the expanses of the entire post-Soviet space. However, the economic indicators of Georgia today are far from impressive. The industrial sector today occupies only about 9% of the entire financial and economic system of the country. Gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity is about $ 5500. This is in 2 times lower than the analogous indicator of Azerbaijan, in 4 times lower than the similar indicator in Russia. In terms of GDP, per capita GDP, Georgia is now at the level of such countries as Namibia and Guatemala. The average pension in Georgia for 2012 was about 125 GEL - 2212 rubles. At the same time, the cost of electricity alone in Georgia is about 3 rubles per 1 kWh (comparable to Russian prices with, to put it mildly, different income levels of the population).
The far from cloudless economic situation in Georgia makes people quite actively seek work in the territory of foreign states. In Russia - including. And this, by the way, is not only about ordinary citizens, but also about some state officials. In particular, the current Prime Minister recalled just before preparing for elections in Georgia that the Georgian passport was more weighty for him than a Russian one, and that after active earnings for two decades in Russia, it would be time to test our political forces at home. In general, someone is leaving, but this one has arrived. And he came, obviously, to make a controlling political "shot" at Mikhail Saakashvili.
And although contacts between Russia and Georgia remain far from rosy, the hope still remains that after the end of the era of Mr. Saakashvili, as president of Georgia, there will be obvious advances in bilateral relations. Well, that does not leave, and that's it ...
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