Former President of Georgia and former Governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili came to a meeting of the Pro-presidential faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "public Servant" Friday with improperly attached badge of the Ukrainian flag.
Earlier, Saakashvili said that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky invited him to become Deputy Prime Minister for reform and asked to begin negotiations with the IMF and other financial institutions. For the appointment of the Verkhovna Rada must vote, but support for his candidacy among the deputies yet, including the Pro-presidential faction "public Servant".
As of the broadcast, which was led by Ukrainian TV channel "Our", at the meeting of the faction Saakashvili came with a badge of the flag of Ukraine. However wrong his policies attached. The Ukrainian flag consists of two colors: top blue, bottom yellow.
Saakashvili cemented his on the lapel of a jacket on the contrary, upside down.
However, after the meeting of the faction he left to journalists to a briefing with the already properly secured icon.
Saakashvili left Georgia in 2013, where he opened a number of criminal cases, some of them he was sentenced in absentia to prison terms. In the spring of 2015 Saakashvili came to Ukrainian politics, when held the post of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed him Governor of Odessa region, before granting citizenship. However, in November 2016 Poroshenko has dismissed Saakashvili, saying that he not only fulfilled promises to develop the region, but also significantly worsened the economic indicators of the region. At the end of July 2017, Poroshenko deprived Saakashvili Ukrainian citizenship. Later, Saakashvili has filed a complaint against this decision of the Ukrainian court, it is still not considered.
The government of Ukraine in February 2018 has sent Saakashvili to Poland, from which he in autumn 2017 illegally came to Ukraine broke through the cordons of border guards and law enforcement officers. Ukraine’s new President Vladimir Zelensky on may 28, 2019, a decree was returned Saakashvili Ukrainian citizenship. Policies on the following day returned to Ukraine.
