Politics in Georgia involve a parliamentary representative democratic republic with a multi-party system. The President of Georgia is the ceremonial head of state and the Prime Minister of Georgia is the head of government. The Prime Minister and the Government wield executive power. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and the unicameral Parliament of Georgia.
Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist. He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. From May 2015 until November 2016,Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast. He is the founder and former chairman of the United National Movement party. Saakashvili heads the executive committee of Ukraine's National Reform Council since 7 May 2020. In 2021 he began serving a six-year prison sentence in Georgia on charges of abuse of power and organization of an assault occasioning grievous bodily harm against an opposition lawmaker Valery Gelashvili.
Since their independence from the Soviet Union,Georgia and Ukraine have forged close political and cultural relations. The diplomatic relations between the two nations are realized at the level of embassies and consulates. Due to the prosecution in Georgia of Georgian/Ukrainian politician Mikheil Saakashvili and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,relations between the two countries have soured significantly.
Georgian Dream –Democratic Georgia is a political party in Georgia. The party was established on 19 April 2012 by the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili. Georgian Dream and its partners in a coalition also named Georgian Dream won majorities in the 2012,2016,and 2020 general elections. The party is currently led by Irakli Garibashvili as Party Chairman and Irakli Kobakhidze as Prime Minister.
Khatia Dekanoidze is a Georgian politician who served as Minister of Education and Science in 2012 and as a Member of Parliament since 2020,as well as a former Ukrainian official,serving as Chief of the National Police of Ukraine in 2015–2016.
Irakli Garibashvili is a Georgian politician and a former business executive who served as the prime minister of Georgia between 22 February 2021 and 29 January 2024. He had previously served as prime minister from 20 November 2013 until his resignation on 30 December 2015. Garibashvili is a member of the Georgian Dream party and has served as the party's chairman since 1 February 2024. He entered politics with his long-time associate Bidzina Ivanishvili,in October 2012.
Russian-occupied territories in Georgia are areas of Georgia that have been occupied by Russia after the Russo-Georgian War in 2008. They consist of the regions of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia and the former South Ossetian Autonomous Region of Soviet Georgia,whose status is a matter of international dispute.
Irakli Kobakhidze is a Georgian constitutional scholar and politician who has served as the 16th Prime Minister of Georgia since February 2024.
Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 31 October and 21 November 2020 to elect the 150 members of Parliament. The ruling Georgian Dream party led by Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia won re-election for a third term in office,making it the first party in Georgian history to do so. The elections also saw a record number of opposition parties elected to parliament.
The 2017 Georgian local elections were held on 21 October 2017 to elect the bodies of local government of Georgia:2,058 members of representative councils (sakrebulo) and 64 mayors of municipalities. The votes went into second-round runoffs in six municipalities on 12 November 2017. The ruling Georgian Dream party won in all constituencies under the proportional contest and secured 62 out of 64 mayoral positions.
The following lists events in 2019 in Georgia.
Mamuka Khazaradze is a Georgian politician and entreprenuer. He is the Chairman of Lelo for Georgia,a centrist political party,full member of the ALDE Party in the European Union. Khazaradze co-founded the largest Georgian universal bank,JSC TBC Bank in 1992. He entered politics in 2019,becoming a Member of the Parliament of Georgia in the 2020 parliamentary elections.
The 2019 protests in Georgia,also known as Gavrilov's Night,refers to a series of anti-government and snap election-demanding protests in the country of Georgia.
Citizens is a political party in Georgia,which was founded on August 4,2020. The party ran for the first time in the 2020 parliamentary elections. The leader of the party is former Tbilisi mayoral candidate Aleko Elisashvili.
The 2021 Georgian local elections were held on 2 and 30 October to elect the bodies of local government of Georgia.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Georgia on 26 October 2024.
Kakhaber "Kakha" Okriashvili is a Georgian doctor,businessman,and politician,founder of the PSP pharmacy network and a member of Parliament since 2004.
The 2023 Georgian protests were a series of street demonstrations taking place throughout Georgia over parliamentary backing of a proposed "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence",which requires NGOs to register as "agents of foreign influence" if the funds they receive from abroad amount to more than 20% of their total revenue. Police have been reported as using water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protests,especially in the capital Tbilisi. The parliament retracted the bill as a result of protests on 10 March 2023.
Mamuka Mdinaradze is a Georgian politician and jurist. Mdinaradze graduated from the Law Faculty of the Tbilisi State University in 2000. In 2005,he became member of the Georgian Bar Association and a defense lawyer specializing in the criminal law. He worked in several law firms before establishing his own in 2015. During this year he was given an academic title of Doctor of Law. In 2016,Mdinaradze entered the politics,joining the ruling Georgian Dream party. He was the Georgian Dream majoritarian candidate for Didi Digomi constituency during the 2016 parliamentary elections,managing to secure victory with 51.7% of the vote. Since then,Mdinaradze has served as the member of the Parliament of Georgia. In 2020,he was reelected to Parliament by party list,bloc:"Georgian Dream –Democratic Georgia". In Parliament,he served as chairman of Georgian Dream faction from 2016 to 2019 and from 2020 to 2024,as well as majority leader from 2019 to 2020 and from 2024 to this day.
Events in the year 2024 in Georgia.
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