Salome Zourabichvili said on Sunday that she will vacate her official residence in Tbilisi, but declared she was still the legitimate president.
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00:00Former soccer player Mikheil Kavalashvili was formally inaugurated president of Georgia
00:08as the ruling party tightened its grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country's
00:13EU aspirations and a victory for former imperial ruler Russia.
00:19Protests continued across the nation with outgoing Georgian president Salome Zurabishvili
00:23saying she would vacate the presidential palace but not her claim to the presidency.
00:28Kavalashvili, who was the only candidate on the ballot, easily won the vote earlier
00:33in December given the Georgian Dream party's control of an electoral college that replaced
00:38direct presidential elections in 2017.
00:42Georgian Dream retained control of parliament in an October election that the opposition
00:47alleges was rigged with Moscow's help.
00:50Zurabishvili and pro-Western parties have boycotted the post-election parliamentary
00:54and demanded a re-run of the ballot.