Republican Jim Risch, a senior member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, responded to the appointment of Mikheil Kavelashvili as the sixth President of Georgia, stating that the US will not abandon the Georgian people.
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“Despite the opposition boycott, the Georgian parliament has moved forward to install an openly anti-Western politician as president. The government's attempt to reject Georgia’s friends is noted, but we will not give up on its people,” the senator wrote on Platform X.
According to Jim Risch, while the US has finally imposed long-overdue sanctions against Bidzina Ivanishvili, the honorary chairman of the Georgian Dream, for his role in the ongoing political turmoil in Georgia, “more must still be done.”
“Again, The U.S. won’t abandon the Georgian people and their desire to have a free, fair democracy,” Risch noted.
On December 29, the Georgian parliament inaugurated Mikheil Kavelashvili, who was elected president by the Georgian Dream electoral college. Foreign diplomats were not invited to the ceremony.
Republican Congressman Joe Wilson, chairman of the Helsinki Commission, also responded to the inauguration, stating, “America stands with the only legitimate Georgian leader Salome Zourabichvili and the Georgian people as they demand free and fair elections, rejecting the sham installation of the CCP and Iranian regime puppet.
Sovereignty is not for sale, and the will of free people will prevail,” Wilson wrote. He had previously invited Salome Zourabichvili to Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, which will be held on January 20.
Opposition parties, Georgia’s fifth president, Salome Zourabichvili, and tens of thousands of participants in pro-European rallies do not consider Mikheil Kavelashvili to be the legitimate president. To date, Kavelashvili has been congratulated on his election as president by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
