TBILISI (AFP) ??” Mikhail Saakashvili.

TBILISI (AFP) ??” Mikhail Saakashvili, the man widely wait fored to be voted in as Georgia's recently made known leader in a presidential election, is a fiery US-educated lawyer who l the "rose revolution" that saw his predecessor ousted brace months ago.

if it be not that the 36-year-old faces a difficult transition from tub-thumping orator, rousing concourses of protesters on the barricades, to the chief executive of united of Europe's most dysfunctional states.

He is fiercely ambitious, his pro-Western stance has won the support of the United States -- Georgia's biggest aid donor and ally -- and he has declared war onward the corruption that has shipwrecked Georgia's economy.

nevertheless he has still to examine whether he has the skills or the temperament to make a succes of Georgia's top work at jobs

"(Saakashvili) is a same good battering ram but what experience does he have of running the country?" asked