On Saturday, Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former football player, was nominated as the President of Georgia after being elected from the Georgian Dream Party.

The 53-year-old Kavelashvili secured 224 votes in the election. Kavelashvili, who played football for Manchester City from 1995 to 1997, entered politics in 2016, when he became a member of parliament with the Georgian Dream Party.

He left Georgian Dream in 2022 and co-founded the People’s Power party. On November 27, 2024, he was nominated by Georgian Dream as its candidate for president of Georgia.