Irakli Garibashvili next Prime Minister

Agenda.ge, 02 Nov 2013 - 00:00, Tbilisi,Georgia

Irakli Garibashvili next Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Interior Minister was named as the successor of Bidzina Ivanishvili, Prime Minister of Georgia, who will step down this month. Garibashvili, 31, is the youngest member of the minister cabinet, an ally of the Georgian prime minister, and serving as a minister after Ivanishvilis movement won the last years election. Ivanishvili announced his nomine after the meeting with GD coalition leadership and GD parliamentary majority members on November 2, saying that Garibashvili will be the best prime minister for Georgia. "This is the right choice. The coalition has the common idea for Garibashvilis as candidate; He has deserved the good attitude from the members. He managed to increase the credibility of police in the country and formed the European style police, Ivanishvili said while naming the next prime minister of Georgia. Thankful for the confidence the coalition and PM Ivanishvili expressed towards him, Garibashvili noted in his brief speech that he will continue the way the acting government has started. "I promise the society, the members of coalition, and the government that I will do my best to continue the way, the way Bidzina Ivanishvili started and his politics. Thanks you for the confidence, Garibashvili noted. Prime Minister is the most powerful political office in the country. Under the constitutional changes that take effect with the inauguration of the new president, the prime minister will be chosen by Parliament then become the head of the government with full executive authority over domestic and foreign policy. Moreover, the Parliament has to provide confidence to the new composition of the government too.