A new prosecutor has taken over the election interference case in the US state of Georgia against President Donald Trump after the previous district attorney was removed.

Peter Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, said in a statement on Friday that he was stepping in to oversee the case.

Trump and 18 co-defendants were charged with racketeering and other offenses in Georgia in 2023 over their alleged efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election in the southern state.

A Georgia appeals court in December disqualified Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from the case citing the "impropriety" of an intimate relationship she had with the man she had hired to be a special prosecutor.

Following Willis's disqualificat

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