Georgian Vice Speaker to attend UNM primaries
Vice-Speaker of Georgian Parliament, Giorgi Baramidze, will participate in the primaries for the selection of the United National Movement's (UNM) presidential candidate, he said during his speech at 'Rose-Roth' seminar of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO.
According to Baramidze, as other party members, he is thinking about participating in the primaries.
Chairman of the UNM, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has said that the presidential candidate of his party will be defined by the primaries.
Besides Baramidze, UNM's potential nominees are the Secretary General of the party, former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili, and the leader of the parliamentary minority, ex-speaker of the Parliament David Bakradze. It was said before that Mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava can run for the President's position, but he refused to do this.
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