The Abkhaz news agency Apsnypress reported that the Abkhaz opposition movements “Amtsakhara” and “United Abkhazia” nominated Sergei Bagapsh to run for president the upcoming elections in the unrecognized republic that are scheduled for October 3.
Sergei Bagapsh is currently the chief of the Abkhazian energy company ChernoMorEnergo.
Abkhazia will elect a new leader in October as the ailing incumbent President Vladislav Ardzinba’s term in office expires this year.
According to Abkhazia’s election code the presidential candidate should be an ethnic Abkhaz who is fluent in the Abkhaz language.