Borashvili was named by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze at a briefing on Monday, as the service's deputy head and before that the director of its state security department, in the account of Gruziya Online, and described in Novosti Gruzii's report as the first career representative of the state security system to lead it in two decades. Geladze moves to deputy interior minister.
The vote closes a week of changes at the top of the enforcement services. On Saturday the heads of the finance ministry's Revenue Service and Investigation Service resigned. On Monday Kobakhidze, together with finance minister Lasha Khutsishvili, named Mamuka Baratashvili to the Revenue Service, its former first deputy head, and Merab Gamkrelidze to the Investigation Service, formerly the head of the Revenue Service's legal department, Gruziya Online reported at 16:17 that day.
None of his three predecessors served a year.
The opposition read the turnover as fear. Nika Gvaramia said that changing the head of a country's security service four times in a year and a half means its ruler is afraid of something, whether a real plot or one he invented himself, and named Bidzina Ivanishvili, Interpressnews reported at 15:49.
None of his three predecessors served a year. The six-year term the law sets would run to 2032.