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Politics Of Georgia (country)
Politics in Georgia involve a parliamentary Representative democracy, 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 Cabinet of Georgia, Government wield executive power. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and the Unicameralism, unicameral Parliament of Georgia. The Georgian state is highly centralized, except for the Autonomous entity, autonomous regions of Abkhazia and Adjara and the former autonomous region of South Ossetia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which had autonomy within the Georgian SSR during Soviet Union, Soviet rule, unilaterally seceded from Georgia in the 1990s. While, , the Georgian government recognizes Abkhazia as autonomous within Georgia, it does not recognize South Ossetia as having any special status. Since achieving independence from the Soviet Union, Georgian politics has been cha ...
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Multi-party System
In political science, a multi-party system is a political system where more than two meaningfully-distinct political parties regularly run for office and win elections. Multi-party systems tend to be more common in countries using proportional representation compared to those using winner-take-all elections, a result known as Duverger's law. In these countries, usually no single party has a parliamentary majority by itself ( hung parliaments). Instead, multiple political parties must negotiate to form a coalition with a majority of the vote, in order to make substantial changes. Comparisons with other party systems Unlike a one-party system (or a dominant-party system), a multi-party system encourages the general constituency to form multiple distinct, officially recognized groups, generally called political parties. Each party competes for votes from the enfranchised constituents (those allowed to vote). A multi-party system prevents the leadership of a single party fro ...
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Representative Democracy
Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy or electoral democracy, is a type of democracy where elected delegates represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy), Germany (a federal parliamentary republic), France (a unitary semi-presidential republic), and the United States (a federal presidential republic). Unlike liberal democracy, a representative democracy may have ''de facto'' multiparty and free and fair elections, but may not have a fully developed rule of law and additional individual and minority rights beyond the electoral sphere. Representative democracy places power in the hands of representatives who are elected by the people. Political parties often become central to this form of democracy if electoral systems require or encourage voters to vote for p ...
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Kutaisi
Kutaisi ( ; ka, ქუთაისი ) is a city in the Imereti region of the Georgia (country), Republic of Georgia. One of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), fourth-most populous city in Georgia after Tbilisi, Batumi and Rustavi. It lies west of Tbilisi, on the Rioni River, and is the capital of Imereti. Historically one of the major cities of Georgia, it served as the political center of Colchis in the Middle Ages as the capital of the Kingdom of Abkhazia and Kingdom of Georgia and later as the capital of the Kingdom of Imereti. From October 2012 to December 2018, Kutaisi was the seat of the Parliament of Georgia as an effort to decentralize the Georgian government. History Archaeological evidence indicates that the city functioned as the capital of the Colchis in the sixth to fifth centuries BC. It is believed that, in ''Argonautica'', a Greek litera ...
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Nino Kadagidze
Nino or Niño may refer to: People *Nino (name) *Niño (name) *Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court justice whose nickname was "Nino" Songs * "Niño" (Belanova song), 2005 * "Niño" (Ed Maverick song), 2021 *"Nino", a song from the album '' Growing Up'' by the Linda Lindas, 2022 Other uses *El Niño, a climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean *NINO, an abbreviation for National Insurance number in the United Kingdom *Niño, the smallest conga drum * ''Nino'' (novel), a 1938 children's novel by Valenti Angelo * ''Niño'' (TV series), a 2014 Philippine TV series *Philips Nino, a PDA-style device *The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO, ) See also *El Niño (other) *Santo Niño (other) *Ninos (other) *Niños (other) *Cyclonic Niño *Niño Jesús *Cave of Niño * Niña (other) *Nina (other) Nina may refer to: * Nina (name), a feminine given name and surname Acronyms * National Iraqi News Agency, a news serv ...
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Supreme Court Of Georgia (country)
The Supreme Court of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს უზენაესი სასამართლო, tr) represents the court of the highest and final administration of justice in the country. It was established in 2005 as the cassation instance court. It is located in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in a building designed by Aleksander Szymkiewicz and built in 1894. The Supreme Court oversees the administration of justice at common courts. Its activities are to be guided by the principles of legality, collective nature, publicity, equality of parties and competitiveness, as well as the irremovability, immunity and independence of judges. The Supreme Court of Georgia considers claims on judgments made by the Courts of Appeal. It supports the introduction of the unified interpretation of the law and the establishment of common judicial practice. Through the substantiated clarification and comparison of legal norms and by establishing court practice, ...
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Batumi
Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ), historically Batum or Batoum, is the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), second-largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest, north of the Georgia-Turkey border, border with Turkey. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains, Caucasus. Much of Batumi's economy revolves around tourism and gambling (it is nicknamed "The Las Vegas of the Black Sea"), but the city is also an Batumi Seaport, important seaport and includes industries like shipbuilding, food processing and light manufacturing. Since 2010, Batumi has been transformed by the construction of modern high-rise buildings, as well as the restoration of classical 19th-century edifices lining its historic Old Town. History Early history Batumi is located on the site of the ancient Greece, ancient Greek colony in Colchis called "''Bat ...
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Merab Turava
Merab Turava (born 23 September 1964) is a Georgian jurist and professor serving as the President of the Constitutional Court of Georgia since June 25, 2020. Previously, he had held the office of a Justice and the Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Georgia. Biography From 1999 to 2006, Merab Turava served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia. From 2000 to 2005, he held the office of the Chairman of the Criminal Chamber and the Vice President of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Merab Turava was appointed as the Justice of the Constitutional Court of Georgia by the Parliament of Georgia The Parliament of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს პარლამენტი, tr) is the supreme national legislature of Georgia. It is a unicameral parliament, currently consisting of 150 members elected through fully pr ... on March 20, 2015. He started to exercise his authority as the Justice of the Constitutional Court on March 30, 2015, after taki ...
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Constitutional Court Of Georgia
The Constitutional Court of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს საკონსტიტუციო სასამართლო, tr) is the constitutional court of Georgia, the country's judicial body of constitutional review, having the greatest significance with the view of securing constitutional provisions and separation of powers, and protecting human rights and freedoms. The Constitutional Court was established in 1996. The legal basis of its organisation and activity is the Constitution of Georgia, the Organic Law of Georgia "On the Constitutional Court of Georgia", and the Rules of the Constitutional Court. The legislation underwent several amendments from 2002 to 2018, the constitutional legal proceedings being made simplified and more expeditious. The Constitutional Court of Georgia was moved from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to Batumi, the main city of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, as part of the process of government decentralization, on 5 J ...
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Courts Of Georgia (country)
Judiciary of Georgia or Courts of Georgia may refer to: * Judiciary of Georgia (country), national judiciary of Georgia * Judiciary of Georgia (U.S. state), state judiciary of Georgia *Courts of Georgia (U.S. state) Courts of Georgia include: ;State courts of Georgia *Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state), Supreme Court of Georgia **Georgia Court of Appeals ***Georgia Superior Courts (49 judicial circuits) ***Georgia State-wide Business Court ****Georgia State ...
, all courts, state and federal, in the U.S. state of Georgia {{disambiguation ...
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Judiciary Of Georgia (country)
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 Georgian state is highly centralized, except for the autonomous regions of Abkhazia and Adjara and the former autonomous region of South Ossetia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which had autonomy within the Georgian SSR during Soviet rule, unilaterally seceded from Georgia in the 1990s. While, , the Georgian government recognizes Abkhazia as autonomous within Georgia, it does not recognize South Ossetia as having any special status. Since achieving independence from the Soviet Union, Georgian politics has been characterized by a schism over its relationship with Russia on one hand and Europe on the other ...
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