Georgia's president agrees to vacate residence - but not her office - video Dailymotion

Salome Zourabichvili said on Sunday that she will vacate her official residence in Tbilisi, but declared she was still the legitimate president.

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00:00Former soccer player Mikheil Kavalashvili was formally inaugurated president of Georgia

00:08as the ruling party tightened its grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country's

00:13EU aspirations and a victory for former imperial ruler Russia.

00:19Protests continued across the nation with outgoing Georgian president Salome Zurabishvili

00:23saying she would vacate the presidential palace but not her claim to the presidency.

00:28Kavalashvili, who was the only candidate on the ballot, easily won the vote earlier

00:33in December given the Georgian Dream party's control of an electoral college that replaced

00:38direct presidential elections in 2017.

00:42Georgian Dream retained control of parliament in an October election that the opposition

00:47alleges was rigged with Moscow's help.

00:50Zurabishvili and pro-Western parties have boycotted the post-election parliamentary

00:54and demanded a re-run of the ballot.