Saakashvili Meets Usupashvili
Parliamentary speaker Davit Usupashvili arrived at the presidential palace on Monday evening for a meeting with President Saakashvili to discuss some of the issues, which have recently became major source of contention between Saakashvili’s UNM party and PM Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream coalition.
Constitutional amendments, pushed by GD, to limit presidential powers to sack the sitting government and appoint new one without Parliament’s approval is expected to be among the issues to be discussed during the meeting.
Leader of UNM parliamentary minority group, MP Davit Bakradze, who welcomed Usupashvili at the entrance of the presidential palace, is also attending the meeting between Saakashvili and Usupashvili.
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