Vice PM slams President after her former employee joins opposition

Thea Tsulukiani, the Vice Prime Minister of Georgia, on Wednesday slammed the country’s President Salome Zourabichvili after the former employee in her administration, Pierre-Alexandre Crevaux, joined the United National Movement opposition party. 

 

In her press comments, Tsulukiani, a former Justice Minister who currently heads the Culture Ministry, said the President “had been gone away for a long time”, referring to Zourabichvili’s alleged connections with the party that has been described as “radical” by the current Government. 

 

In his comments on Tuesday, Pierre-Alexandre Crevaux claimed Zourabichvili was “slowly seeing the need” to pardon the currently imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili. 

 

The President’s administration responded that he had never held the position of adviser to the president of Georgia and had no right or legitimacy to “spread rumors” about the President’s alleged positions and opinions.