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Giorgi Gugava (born 1 July 1974) is a Georgian politician who is a member of the Georgian Labour Party. He was a member of the Parliament of Georgia, [1] and took part in the 2017 Georgian local elections where he was a candidate in the Tbilisi mayoral election.

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