Brian Mefford: Saakashvili comeback in Georgia?
A file picture taken on August 8, 2013 shows Mikheil Saakashvili, who was then Georgian president, taking part in a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the brief 2008 war with Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia in Tbilisi.
While Odesa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili is clearly preparing the groundwork for the launch of his political party later this year, this has not prevented him from pondering a return to politics in his native Georgia. Georgia voters go to the polls on October 8, 2016 to elect a new Parliament in a contest that is viewed as a referendum on the performance of Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgia Dream coalition, as well as a barometer on the public's desire for a Saakashvili return to power.
