Georgian Constitutional Court finds President Zurabishvili guilty of violating the constitution

The Constitutional Court of Georgia has found violations of the Constitution in the actions of President Salomé Zurabishvili.

Echo of the Caucasus reports.

The judges upheld the impeachment petition filed by members of parliament. Three judges voted against it.

Now, the parliament has two weeks to consider and put to a vote the issue of removing the president from office by impeachment.

This requires at least 100 votes. Given that almost all opposition members promise to vote against it, the ruling party is unlikely to be able to remove Zurabishvili from office.

The ruling party, Georgian Dream, has launched impeachment proceedings against President Salomé Zurabishvili over her uncoordinated visits to Europe. According to the country's constitution, the President of Georgia is supposed to exercise representative powers in foreign relations only with the consent of the government.

On August 30, the government of Sakartvelo banned the president from official visits to Ukraine, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Israel. On August 31, Salomé Zurabishvili met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin without government permission.

On September 3, the Georgian Dream Party acknowledged that the launch of impeachment proceedings against President Salomé Zurabishvili would lead to nothing, with the Georgian Dream coalition having only 84 seats in parliament.

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