President Mikheil Saakashvili visits Adjara Autonomous Republic on June 17 and campaigns in support of his party on the eve of the June 20 local elections in the region.
?Saakashvili – Victorious Adjara? is the name of the group, which was set up as a result of making up a party-list of President Saakashvili?s supporters. Most of them are the members of the ruling National Movement-Democrat party.
Citizens in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara will elect a new, 30-seat Parliament during fresh elections on June 20.
After the peaceful ousting of Adjara?s former head, Aslan Abashidze, President Saakashvili disbanded Abashidze?s puppet, two-chamber local Parliament and imposed direct presidential rule in the region. The 20-member Interim Council was set up to govern the republic until the snap local elections.