Poroshenko on Saakashvili’s resignation: “After losing elections in Georgia, someone decided to do politics in Ukraine”
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The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has made his first comment on the resignation of Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili from his post as the governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region.
"After the defeat in the Georgian elections, someone has decided to do politics in Ukraine,” Poroshenko said during his joint press conference with Slovenian president Borut Pahor this evening.
We are a democratic country and if he made this decision to start a campaign in the opposition capacity ... I hope tomorrow the Government [of Ukraine] accepts his resignation from the position of head of Odessa’s regional administration, if he decided to get into politics.”
Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s third president from 2004 to 2007 and again from 2008 to 2013, announced his resignation at a special press briefing yesterday.
He accused Ukrainian authorities of corruption and said president Poroshenko personally supported two corrupt clans in Odessa.
Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili has resigned from his post as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region today.
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