Bidzina Ivanishvili does not speak to Salome Zourabichvili. According to Courier, five months after the election, Salome Zourabichvili and Bidzina Ivanishvili` s roads have diverged . Ivanishvili no longer speaks with Zurabishvili and he does even contact her.
The president did not give a specific answer to the specific question and did not say that she and Bidzina Ivanishvili do not have a conflict. The President says that besides her and Ivanishvili"s confrontation there are other important issues in the country.
The conflict between the President and the Chairman of the Georgian Dream reached the peak last week, according to the trustworthy informer, and the last point in the tense relations was the political step of Zurabishvili.
Zourabichvili held a formal reception in the former presidential palace where she invited the fourth president Giorgi Margvelashvili. Giorgi Margvelashvili"s visit who was declared persona non grata by Ivanishvili to the Avlabari palace was a very unpleasant surprise for Ivanishvili.
The idea was Zourabichvili`s , but the President"s administration brought realized it and brought Giorgi Margvelashvili with the first lady in the Avlabari palace. Lasha Zhvania, the head of the administration, has resigned shortly after the reception. Why did he resign? - Zhvania does not speak about this issue.
According to one of the versions, Lasha Zhvania was struggling with Salome Zourabichvili because Zourabichvili did not agree with Zhvania"s decisions.The fact is that the resignation of the head of Salome Zurabishvili"s administration is not just an ordinary staff change, is confirmed by the reaction of the President. To the Courier"s question was Lasha Zhvania resigned, Zourabichvili responded with silence.
The conflict between Ivanishvili and Salome Zourabichvili has been brewing for several months. Prior to entering the Avlabari palace and inviting Margvelashvili, there was a ceremony dedicated to the 100th anniversary of parliamentarism.
The President of Georgia did not go to the Rustaveli Theater as the sign of protest. It has become known that it was in Zourabichvili"s demarche, who demanded to be the main speaker at the solemn reception, but Irakli Kobakhidze did not give in and Ivanishvili supported Kobakhidze.
Salome Zourabichvili was annoyed at Irakli Kobakhidze and Mamuka Bakhtadze when she was not invited to several events dedicated to the date of Soviet Occupation. However, the president has not publicly expressed this dissatisfaction. Salome Zourabichvili opposed only Davit Sergeenko openly.Specialists say that the confrontation between Bidzina Ivanishvili and Salome Zourabichvili will become more public and will be more acute. It is not ruled out that she will encounter similar problems during foreign visits, as it was during the period of Giorgi Margvelashvil