GEORGIA: Former footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili was inaugurated as the country’s president today.

Outgoing pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili said that she would vacate her residence at the Orbeliani Palace in Tbilisi but insisted that she was still the legitimate office holder.

Mr Kavelashvili, who was the only candidate on the ballot, easily won the vote earlier in December, given the Georgian Dream party’s control of a 300-seat electoral college that replaced direct presidential elections in 2017.