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  • Georgia's parliament confirmed Defence Minister and former PM Irakli Garibashvili as the next prime minister Monday, after his predecessor resigned last week over plans to arrest a top opposition leader. Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved 38-year-old Garibashvili as the Caucasus country's new prime minister by 89 votes to two against. He previously served in the post between 2013 and 2015. The country's previous head of government, Giorgi Gakharia, stepped down on Thursday, citing a disagreement within the ruling party over enforcing a court order to place opposition leader Nika Melia in pre-trial detention. The move to detain Melia -- chairman of the country's main opposition United National Movement (UNM) -- sparked outrage among the opposition and warnings from the ex-Soviet country's Western allies. Addressing lawmakers ahead of Monday's vote, Garibashvili said his government would proceed with Melia's arrest, saying the politician "will not manage to hide from justice". Leaders of all of the country's opposition parties have camped out at the UNM headquarters in Tbilisi since Wednesday vowing to obstruct plans to arrest Melia Following Garibashvili's speech, they told journalists they feared a violent police raid on the building. Garibashvili was a political unknown before he was brought into politics in 2012 by powerful oligarch and founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili. Ivanishvili, who calls Garibashvili his "beloved boy", is widely seen as the man in charge in Georgia, despite having no official political role. Melia has ridiculed Garibashvili's candidacy as "comical" and described Georgian Dream as "finished" over the decision to nominate him for another term as prime minister. He dismisses the charges laid against him of "organising mass violence" during anti-government protests in 2019 as politically motivated. The order to detain Melia has deepened a political crisis that has gripped the Caucasus nation since last October's parliamentary elections. The opposition denounced that vote as rigged after Georgian Dream claimed a narrow victory. In the wake of Gakharia's resignation last week, they called for snap parliamentary polls. im/emg/jj
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  • Georgia parliament approves oligarch's 'beloved boy' as new PM
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