On Sept. 6, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who now heads the Executive Committee of the National Council of Reforms in Ukraine, announced that he will come back to Georgia for the upcoming Oct. 2 municipal race. According to all polls, Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) party will be the most formidable opponent of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling Georgian Dream (GD).

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