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Mikheil Saakashvili: Okruashvili was my biggest mistake

28 December 2007 09:13 (UTC +04:00)

Saakashviliâ€™s remark followed after he was asked at the late night political talk show at Rustavi 2 TV what was his biggest mistake.
â€œA reshuffle is needed, because my team, which was established four years ago, was a revolutionary team, very passionate and vigorous; very many decisive actions were needed and sometimes very sharp and sometimes even painful actions were needed to be undertaken,â€ Saakashvili said. Mikheil Saakashvili said he no longer needed â€œa revolutionary teamâ€ and vowed, if re-elected, â€œto fundamentally reshuffleâ€ his political team and make it â€œmore all-inclusive.â€
â€œBut now I need a team, which will be more professional, which will be more sober-headed and much more concentrated and much more all-inclusive with professionals regardless of their age. There are many people in lower level management whose performance has been excellent and who should be promoted. But there are some whose performance has been poor and I have noticed it, so there will be a serious reshuffle.â€ he said./APA/