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Ex-Foreign Minister Zourabichvili Unveils Presidential Ambitions

Leader of the opposition Georgia?s Way party and ex-Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili said on February 9 that she will run for the 2008 presidential elections, if she has the right.


The Georgian constitution says that any Georgian citizen can run for president if he or she has lived in Georgia for at least fifteen years.


?I would like to run for the presidential elections; however, according to the Georgian Constitution, I do not have this right because I have not been living in Georgia for the past 15 years, as envisaged by the legislation,? Salome Zourabichvili said at a news briefing.


Zourabichvili was born in France into a Georgian family that emigrated from Georgia in 1920s. She was appointed as French Ambassador to Georgia in 2003. The following year President Saakashvili granted her Georgian citizenship and appointed her as Foreign Minister. Zourabichvili was dismissed from the position in October 2005 following a conflict with the ruling National Movement party.


In 2006 she established the opposition party Georgia?s Way, which ran in the local self-governance elections in the same year. The party garnered less than 3% of votes in Tbilisi and 1% in the rest of Georgia.

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