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BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Georgia’s President and his United National Movement party have conceded defeat in Monday’s legislative elections. It comes after early official results indicated that the opposition party Georgian Dream had won.
President Mikheil Saakashvili has conceded his party’s defeat in parliamentary elections to a coalition led by the billionaire, Bidzina Ivanishvili.
The president says he will respect the voters’ will and his own ruling party would go into opposition.
Saakashvili came to power through a peaceful revolution after a rigged parliamentary vote in 2003.
He will remain as the head of state of Georgia until his second and last term ends in October 2013.
Saakashvili’s acceptance of his party’s defeat has raised the chances of the country’s first peaceful transfer of power between rival parties since the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991.
The opposition coalition Georgian Dream’s victory puts the de facto leader Bidzina Ivanishvili in place to become prime minister.
Ivanishvili, has suggested the incumbent Georgian president should resign.
Bidzina Ivanishvili, Leader, Georgian Dream Coalition said, "It will be good if he submits his resignation rather than us starting various procedures, because there are various ways to make him do this. But the most proper thing is for him to write a letter to resign. This is very logical, and I anticipate that he will do it - even more than I anticipated him conceding defeat."
Ivanishvili also says Saakashvili’s ideology had created "a climate of lies, violence and torture".
Ivanishvili made his fortune in Russia and until recently has been little known to the 4.5 million people in his homeland.
He has promised to ease tensions with Moscow, four years after Georgia- the staunch US ally lost a war with Russia.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev welcomed the opposition victory as opening the way for "more constructive and responsible forces" to enter the Georgian parliament.
And the US State Department also congratulated Saakashvili for graciously conceding his party’s defeat, saying it sends a good signal.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
Suggest Georgian president concedes defeat - Xinhua Articles Question by Bertrand Encourages Thought: Why do many Americans ignorantly believe that there is not a "separation of church and state" here in the USA? The phrase, "a wall of separation between church and state," was coined by President Thomas Jefferson in a carefully crafted letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802, when they had asked him to explain the First Amendment. The Supreme Court, and lower courts, have used Jefferson's phrase repeatedly in major decisions upholding neutrality in matters of religion. The exact words "separation of church and state" do not appear in the Constitution; neither do "separation of powers," "interstate commerce," "right to privacy," and other phrases describing well-established constitutional principles. Best answer for Why do many Americans ignorantly believe that there is not a "separation of church and state" here in the USA?:
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The middle east doesn't have a seperation of church and state. You should do well there.
Answer by tribeca_belle
I think you answered your own question. Ignorance.
Answer by Yoda Cookie Monster
Because then they can't make laws that force everybody to adhere to their religion's moral code.
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the only people who deny the separation are CHRISTIANS, who try to force christianity on the rest of us
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Because conservatives need evangelical retards for votes.
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the same reason so many Americans watch CBS ABC and MSNBC they're ignorant
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Because there's not. At least not in way atheist think there is. The 1st amendment stating " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibit the free exercise thereof " is talking about keeping government out of Church, not Church from influencing government, Which had been a problem prior to our founders leaving Europe where the Church was controlled by the government. God bless.
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Some people don't think for themselves and just listen to what their fundamentalist soapbox tells them on Sunday.
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Fundamentally, the "separation of church and state" is simply a rewording of the plain wording of the First Amendment. If Congress can neither make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, it seems pretty damn clear separation was the intent. Then again, I graduated 6th grade, which is more than I can say for many people who don't believe the aforementioned principle is embodied in the Constitution.
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The Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by unanimous consent in Congress, clearly establishes that the U.S. is a firmly secular state. Of course, the first amendment clearly separated church and state before that, even if it didn't use that exact phrase.
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Dude. Jefferson was one of the 'framers'. His expressed interpretation has a good deal of legal weight.
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