Georgia's ruling party picks ex-football player as presidential candidate

Georgia’s ruling party chose Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former soccer player and current lawmaker, to be their presidential candidate in the Dec. 14 election to replace the country’s current pro-Europe head of state, Bloomberg reported.

“I hope he will serve Georgia, not foreign forces,” Georgian Dream’s founder, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, said on Wednesday while nominating him in the country’s capital of Tbilisi.