MP: Ex-Georgian president exhausts himself as political leader

Head of the Georgian “Citizens” party, MP Aleko Elisashvili has said that Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili is not the "leader of the future" for Georgia any more.

“We cannot always talk about the ex-president as a hero,” Georgia.Online quotes Elisashvili as saying.

“If Saakashvili does not interfere in Georgian politics, it will be good. He, as a political leader, has already exhausted himself in Georgia. When you were president and commander-in-chief twice and sneaking along with sour cream, this is a shameful act,” he added.

The Georgian MP noted that Saakashvili may well make a deal with the Georgian authorities to transfer him from jail for medical treatment abroad.

Elisashvili added that the price of such a step would be the ex-president's refusal to interfere in the country's politics, which could benefit his own United National Movement party.