“That the ruling team has really run out of cadres can no longer and will no longer be hidden,” is how Georgia’s fifth President, Salome Zurabishvili, responds to the personnel changes.

As Zurabishvili writes on her own Facebook page, “The party criterion has not justified itself.”

“So the political, party criterion has not justified itself, and ‘for the first time in 30 years’ we are appointing a career-experienced person as head of the SSS. Is Kobakhidze talking about strengthening institutions?! In reality, that the ruling team has run out of cadres can no longer and will no longer be hidden. Otherwise, who dismantled the institutions, who took away their independence, and who put a newly hatched ‘general’ and his clan over the heads of professionals who came up through their careers?” Zurabishvili writes.

For information: The head of the State Security Service, Gela Geladze, himself wrote on social media today about leaving the position. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze today nominated Tamaz Borashvili for the post of head of the SSS. As for Gela Geladze, he will take the position of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.