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Saakashvili Says Interior Ministry Still Under Ex-Minister’s Control

(Tbilisi, March 12, Civil Georgia) – MP Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the New National Movement called the Internal Affairs Minister Koba Narchemashvili diminish influence of ex-Interior Minister Kakha Targamadze over the Ministry.

“All the Internal Deputy Ministers are appointed during Targamadze and until now they are controlled by him,” Mikheil Saakashvili stated at the Parliamentary session on March 12.

Former Internal Affairs Minister Kakha Targamadze was forced to leave the post last November in the wave of the mass protests in Tbilisi, when the protesters demanded Targamadze’s and several other Georgian high officials’ dismissal.

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