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.
The Verkhovna Rada, officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the unicameral parliament of Ukraine.
Giorgi Baramidze is a Georgian politician who served as Vice Prime Minister of Georgia and State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration from 2004 to 2012. On October 21, 2012, he was elected as a vice-speaker of the Parliament of Georgia.
Shalva Natelashvili is a Georgian politician, a founder of the Georgian Labour Party and its chair since 1995. He is a president of the International Geopolitical Center.
The European Party of Ukraine is a Ukrainian political party registered by the Ministry of Justice on August 3, 2006. Its ideology is social-liberalism, when the state should maintain harmonious social relations: create appropriate conditions for free competition, to prevent the formation of market monopolies and protect the vulnerable population strata. They advocate reforms that they claim will increase social standards of life of Ukrainians to the European level. They support integration of Ukraine into the European Union. Initially, the party was headed by Mykola Moskalenko. In August 2013 the party had more than 5,000 members. The party did not take part in national elections since 2012.
Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Ukrainian SSR on 4 March 1990, with runoffs in some seats held between 10 and 18 March. The elections were held to elect deputies to the republic's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Simultaneously, elections of oblast councils also took place in their respective administrative divisions.
The Republican Party of Georgia, commonly known as the Republicans, is a political party in Georgia active since 1978. Until March 2016, the party was a part of the Georgian Dream coalition that won the 2012 election, defeating the United National Movement. Currently it is in opposition to Georgian Dream as part of the UNM-led Strength Is in Unity coalition.
Manuchar Kvirkvelia is a retired Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler and politician, an Olympic champion and a member of the Parliament of Georgia since 2008.
Gubaz Sanikidze is a Georgian politician, currently serving as a member of the Parliament of Georgia from the United National Movement (UNM) since 2020. A career historian, he was first elected to Georgia's legislature during the 1990 elections that saw the downfall of the Soviet regime, as a member of the conservative Traditionalist Party. Following the Georgian Civil War, his party formed an alliance with the authoritarian leader of Adjara Aslan Abashidze and he was elected to a second term as MP in 1999, during which he became an opponent to President Eduard Shevardnadze. After the rise to power of a new government with the Rose Revolution, he remained in the opposition and lost his seat in 2004, launching with other veteran politicians the National Forum. He briefly served a third term in Parliament in 2008, resigning his seat two weeks after being elected.
Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 1 October 2012. The opposition Georgian Dream coalition of billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili won a majority of the seats. President Mikheil Saakashvili conceded his party's defeat.
Ivane (Vano) Chkhartishvili is a Georgian and is the 48th richest businessman in the region with an estimated wealth of around $100million. He is a former Minister of the Economy and Member of Parliament in Georgia.
Mykola Dmytrovych Katerynchuk is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer, a PhD in law, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada. The chairman of the European Party of Ukraine.
Elene Khoshtaria is a Georgian politician and the Member of the Parliament of Georgia since 2016. From 2007–2012 she was the first deputy minister in the State Ministry for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia, she was also a candidate in Tbilisi mayoral elections, 2017.
Progress and Freedom is a pro-European political party in Georgia founded by Kakha Okriashvili and brothers Tsezar and Lasha Chocheli In 2020. In the 2020 parliamentary election it was a part of Strength is in Unity coalition, electing 3 MPs to the Georgian parliament through the coalition's electoral list. For the 2024 parliamentary election, Progress and Freedom fielded its candidates on Unity – National Movement's list.
Giorgi Kakhiani is a Georgian lawyer and politician.
Levan Bezhashvili is a Georgian lawyer and politician who has served as a Member of Parliament from the United National Movement since 2020, with previous stints in 2004–2008 and 2012–2016. A former official during the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, he joined the government following the Rose Revolution of 2003, becoming Deputy Minister of Justice and an influential chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee in Parliament, spearheading the Saakashvili administration's structural and legal reforms. After a brief term as Governor of Kakheti in 2008, he became chairman of the Chamber of Control, leading the audit agency as it saw its powers increase to oversee political campaign funding ahead of the 2012 parliamentary elections.
Giorgi Botkoveli is a Georgian politician who has served as a Member of Parliament from the United National Movement since 2020. A former official during the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, he joined the public service following the Rose Revolution of 2003, serving several national and local public agencies until 2004.
Kakhaber "Kakha" Okriashvili is a Georgian doctor, businessman, and politician, founder of the PSP pharmacy network and a member of Parliament since 2004.
Davit Kirkitadze is a Georgian politician who has served as a Member of Parliament in 2004–2008 and since 2020, as well as Governor of Kvemo Kartli in 2008–2013.
Irakli (Dachi) Beraya is a Georgian financier and politician. A former protégé of entrepreneur Bidzina Ivanishvili, he has worked at his bank Cartu Bank since 2004 before joining the public sector in 2016 as a member of his political party, Georgian Dream. He was elected to the Parliament of Georgia the same year as representative of the 64th constituency (Senaki-Khobi) in western Georgia. In 2020, he was re-elected, this time as a member of the GD electoral list. He remains known as one of the opponents of the 2019 constitutional amendments that would have transformed Georgia's legislative electoral system into a proportional system during the political crisis of 2019–2020.
