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Irakli Kobakhidze, the 45-year-old chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, is all but certain to become Georgia’s next prime minister. He was nominated for the post by the party’s founder and honorary chairman, the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. The nomination was approved at a special party congress on February 1. Kobakhidze’s nomination will now go to the parliament, where it should easily receive the necessary 76 votes out of 150 given Georgian Dream’s majority in the legislature. He will replace Irakli Garibashvili, who resigned on January 29 after three years in office and who was …

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