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Georgia’s former President and Leader of Ukraine’s opposition New Forces party, Mikheil Saakashvili, arrived in the Netherlands, the homeland of his spouse Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs, after being deported from Ukraine to Poland.

In a Facebook post, Saakashvili said he received an ID card shortly after arrival that allows him to live and work in the European Union.

“As soon as I arrived in the Netherlands, I was given an identity card giving the right to stay and work in the European Union, the entire procedure took only a few minutes. But I am more determined than ever to regain my Ukrainian citizenship,” the post reads.

Saakashvili pledged to return to Ukraine again to make sure the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko goes to jail. The opposition leader and his supporters are planning a major rally for Poroshenko’s resignation on February 18.

“We will organize a mass protest movement, and it will expand. I’ll find a moment when I can physically join it in Ukrainian territory,” Kyiv Post quoted Saakashvili.

Georgia’s third President said he would tour around Europe in the upcoming weeks and meet with European and US officials to discuss the introduction of personal sanctions in the West against Ukrainian top officials involved in corruption.

Saakashvili was detained in Kyiv while he was having lunch in a Georgian restaurant on February 12, and sent to Poland for having violated Ukrainian law in September 2017 when he illegally crossed into Ukraine.

Saakashvili is also wanted in Georgia for embezzlement and abuse of power, which he describes as politically motivated charges. In case he is extradited to his homeland, the third President of Georgia faces immediate arrest and imprisonment.

By Thea Morrison

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