Shota Malashkhia ( ka, შოთა მალაშხია; born 17 September 1962) is a
Georgian politician and the member of the
Parliament of Georgia
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of the
8th convocation from the
United National Movement
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party (UNM). In June 2013, he was named as one of the candidates for the 2013 UNM
presidential nomination
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.
After working as an electrician and a switchman in
Tbilisi
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for years, Malashkhia enrolled into the
Tbilisi State Medical Institute in 1983 and graduated from it in 1989. He practiced
neurology
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at various outpatient clinics in Tbilisi before entering politics in 2004, when he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia on the ticket of
Mikheil Saakashvili
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-led United National Movement, which was swept into power following the bloodless change of power in the November 2003
Rose Revolution
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. He became a chairman of the
ad hoc
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Parliamentary Commission on the Restoration of Territorial Integrity from 2004 to 2008 and frequently voiced the Georgian leadership's position on the issues related to the conflicts in
Abkhazia
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and
South Ossetia
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. He was reelected to the parliament in
June 2008
2008 was designated as:
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and
October 2012. In June 2013, the UNM—then an opposition party–named Malashkhia as one of the four candidates for the party's presidential primaries.
References
Living people
1962 births
United National Movement (Georgia) politicians
Members of the Parliament of Georgia
Neurologists from Georgia (country)
Tbilisi State Medical University alumni
Recipients of the Presidential Order of Excellence
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