Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili speaks to the media during the President-elect Mikheil Kavelashvili's inauguration ceremony broadcast, in Tbilisi, Georgia. Earlier in December, Central Election Commission chairman Giorgi Kalandarishvili said that the ruling Georgian Dream party's candidate, Mikheil Kavelashvili, was elected Georgian president. The election took place amid outgoing Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili refusing to leave her post.