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The ruling Georgian Dream party presented today incumbent Kakha Kaladze as a candidate for the Tbilisi mayoral race of October 2021, Civil.ge reported.

At the presentation, held in Mtatsminda park overlooking the capital city, Georgian Dream leaders, ministers and lawmakers were met with protesting journalists, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili over the death of cameraman Aleksandre Lashkarava and the punishment of perpetrators, the news organisation said.

The incumbent Mayor of the capital city is one of the most favorable viewed public figures in Georgia, and the most liked leader of the Georgian Dream, according to the latest IRI-commissioned public opinion poll of April, Civil.ge said.