Georgia Post-2013

The Road to the Presidential Elections and Beyond

Author(s): Ulrike Graalfs, Ivlian Haindrava, Tornike Sharashenidze
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 19
Pages: 11-15
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Jefferson Institute, Washington D.C.; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2010

It is hard to believe that by 2013, President Mikheil Saakashvili, then aged 46, will withdraw from politics when his second term in office ends. This young president has shown himself too ambitious to simply put down the pen and vacate the presidential palace for an early retirement. In order to understand what lies on the road ahead for Georgia before and after the 2013 presidential elections, it is essential to look at the current political trends and developments in a country that still sees its western course challenged by its powerful Russian neighbor in a geopolitically contested region.

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