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First Calls for Saakashvili's Resignation

Sonja Sekri, Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German) | September 11, 2008

A growing number of voices call for Saakashvili's resignation due to his felonious decision to bomb Zchinwali. ++ In spite of the government's rhetoric, which tries to justify any efforts to keep South Ossetia, the opposition calls for an examination of Georgia's contribution to the outbreak of the conflict. ++ However, opposing politicians such as Gamkrelidse, who wants to turn Georgia into a constitutional monarchy under the rule of the Georgian patriarch, hardly conform to the West's preferences for an alternative to Saakashvili.