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National Movement - Democrats (Georgia)
United National Movement (UNM; ka, ერთიანი ნაციონალური მოძრაობა, tr) also colloquially known as the Natsebi is a liberal conservative political party in Georgia. Tina Bokuchava serves as the party's chairman, while its honorary chairman Mikheil Saakashvili is considered the de facto leader. UNM's electoral number is 5. UNM was founded by Mikheil Saakashvili in 2001, in opposition to Eduard Shevardnadze's government, rising to power following the Rose Revolution in 2003. During its nine-year rule, UNM implemented several major reforms. The government focused on rooting out corruption and crime, establishing a free market economy, pursuing a pro-Western foreign policy, and regaining territorial integrity. The latter two put it in direct conflict with Russia exploding into a full-on war in 2008 that resulted in 20% of Georgia's territory being occupied by Russia to this day. During its second term, accusations mounted over UNM's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinatin Bokuchava
Tinatin "Tina" Bokuchava ( ka, თინათინ „თინა“ ბოკუჩავა; born 29 May 1983) is a Georgian politician who has served as a member of Parliament of Georgia, Parliament since 2012 and as Chair of the United National Movement (Georgia), United National Movement since June 2024. An official in the administration of Mikheil Saakashvili, she joined the public service in Georgia after studying in the United States and, after a short stint as a diplomat, became Deputy Head of the Chamber of Control. Following the victory of Georgian Dream in the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election, 2012 parliamentary election, she became one of the most vocal opponents of the government and won reelection in 2016 and 2020. Since 8 May 2023, she serves as chair of the United National Movement – United Opposition "Strength is in Unity" Faction, UNM Faction in Parliament. Bokuchava was one of several MPs to refuse to recognize the results of the 2020 Georgian parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze ( ka, ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia (country), Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until his resignation in 2003 and also served as the final Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Soviet minister of foreign affairs from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze started his political career in the late 1940s as a leading member of his local Komsomol organisation. He was later appointed its Second Secretary, then its First Secretary. His rise in the Georgian Soviet hierarchy continued until 1961 when he was demoted after he insulted a senior official. After spending two years in obscurity, Shevardnadze returned as a First Secretary of a Tbilisi city district, and was able to charge the Tbilisi First Secretary at the time with corruption. His anti-corruption work quickly garnered the interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Bokuchava
Tinatin "Tina" Bokuchava ( ka, თინათინ „თინა“ ბოკუჩავა; born 29 May 1983) is a Georgian politician who has served as a member of Parliament since 2012 and as Chair of the United National Movement since June 2024. An official in the administration of Mikheil Saakashvili, she joined the public service in Georgia after studying in the United States and, after a short stint as a diplomat, became Deputy Head of the Chamber of Control. Following the victory of Georgian Dream in the 2012 parliamentary election, she became one of the most vocal opponents of the government and won reelection in 2016 and 2020. Since 8 May 2023, she serves as chair of the UNM Faction in Parliament. Bokuchava was one of several MPs to refuse to recognize the results of the 2020 parliamentary election after allegations of massive voter fraud surfaced and boycotted the new Parliament until May 2021. She has been a leading figure of the United National Movement an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region on the coast of the Black Sea. It is located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia, and is today generally regarded as part of Europe. It is bordered to the north and northeast by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers an area of . It has a Demographics of Georgia (country), population of 3.7 million, of which over a third live in the capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city, Tbilisi. Ethnic Georgians, who are native to the region, constitute a majority of the country's population and are its titular nation. Georgia has been inhabited since prehistory, hosting the world's earliest known sites of winemaking, gold mining, and textiles. The Classical antiquity, classical era saw the emergence of several kingdoms, such as Colchis and Kingdom of Iberia, Iberia, that formed the nucleus of the modern Georgian state. In the early fourth centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Political Parties In Georgia (country)
This is a list of political parties in the country of Georgia (country), Georgia. Georgia has a multi-party system. Active parties Major parties Parties with parliamentary representation ''The following parties have representation in the Parliament of Georgia.'' ''The following parties won seats in the 10th Parliament of Georgia but have since then resigned them.'' Parties with no parliamentary representation ''The following parties have participated in the 2024 parliamentary elections, but failed to gain seats.'' Small parties ''The following parties have no elected official but took part in the 2021 local elections.'' ''The following parties registered but failed ballot access in the 2021 local elections.'' ''The following parties have no elected official but took part in the 2020 parliamentary election.'' ''The following parties registered but failed ballot access in the 2020 parliamentary election.'' ''The following parties have not taken part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbreviation
An abbreviation () is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening (linguistics), shortening, contraction (grammar), contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example, the term ''etc.'' is the usual abbreviation for the list of Latin phrases, Latin phrase . Types A ''Contraction (grammar), contraction'' is an abbreviation formed by replacing letters with an apostrophe. Examples include ''I'm'' for ''I am'' and ''li'l'' for ''little''. An ''initialism'' or ''acronym'' is an abbreviation consisting of the initial letter of a sequence of words without other punctuation. For example, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI (wiktionary:FBI#Pronunciation, ), United States, USA (wiktionary:USA#Pronunciation, ), IBM (wiktionary:IBM#Pronunciation, ), BBC (wiktionary:BBC#Pronunciation, ). When initialism is used as the preferred term, acronym refers mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rustavi City Assembly
Rustavi Municipal Assembly ( Georgian: რუსთავის საკრებულო) is a representative body in the city of Rustavi, Georgia. currently consisting of 35 members; of these, 28 are proportional representatives and 7 are elected through single-member districts, representing their constituencies. It was established in the early 1990s, after Georgia's independence. The council is assembled into session regularly, to consider subject matters such as code changes, utilities, taxes, city budget, oversight of city government and more. Rustavi sakrebulo is elected every four years. Currently, the city council has 5 committees. The last election was held in October 2021. Powers In accordance with the Code of Local Self-Government of the Organic Law of Georgia, the Sakrebulo exercises its powers to define the administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and its identity, organizational activities, determination of the personnel policy of the munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batumi City Assembly
The Batumi Municipal Assembly ( ka, ბათუმის საკრებულო, tr) is a representative body in the city of Batumi, Georgia. Currently consisting of 35 members; of these, 28 are proportional representatives and 7 are elected through single-member districts, representing their constituencies. During the 1990s, the city council did not function as a self-governing body and decisions in the city were made individually by authorities. At this period, the leader of the autonomous republic was Aslan Abashidze, whose authoritarian ruling ended after the Adjara’s Rose Revolution, on May 6, 2004. On October 5, 2006 the first local self-governmental election of the representative body took place. The council is assembled into session regularly, to consider subject matters such as code changes, utilities, taxes, city budget, oversight of city government, and more. Batumi ''sakrebulo'' members are being elected every four years. Currently, the city council has 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kutaisi City Assembly
Kutaisi Municipal Assembly (Georgian language, Georgian: ქუთაისის საკრებულო) is a representative body in the city of Kutaisi, Georgia (country), Georgia. currently consisting of 35 members; of these, 28 are proportional representatives and 7 are elected through single-member districts, representing their constituencies. It was established in the early 1990s, after Georgia's independence. The council is assembled into session regularly, to consider subject matters such as code changes, utilities, taxes, city budget, oversight of city government and more. Kutaisi sakrebulo is elected every four years. Currently, the city council has 5 committees. The last election was held in 2021 Georgian local elections, october 2021. The ruling party of Georgian Dream won the majority of votes. The current Chairperson of Kutaisi City Assembly is Irakli Shengelia. Composition The members of the Sakrebulo are selected through a mixed electoral system. Of the 35 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tbilisi City Assembly
The Tbilisi Sakrebulo ( ka, თბილისის საკრებულო, tr), is a representative body in the city government of Tbilisi, Georgia. It is also known in English as the Tbilisi City Council or Tbilisi Assembly. History Sakrebulos were established as the representative branch of local government not only in Tbilisi, but throughout Georgia, by reforms instituted in 1991 as the country declared independence from the Soviet Union. The first elections to sakrebulos was held on 31 March 1991. According to the 1991 legislation on self-governance, it was exercised in Tbilisi on two levels. Thus, there was Tbilisi sakrebulo to represent entire city, as well as ''rayon sakrebulos'' and each Tbilisi rayon (district) elected its own sakrebulo. Only these ''rayon sakrebulos'' were elected, while the Tbilisi Sakrebulo was composed of the chairmen and representatives of Tbilisi's ''rayon sakrebulos''. Tbilisi had ten ''rayons'' and one ''daba'' ( Tskneti), all of whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Council Of The Autonomous Republic Of Adjara
The Supreme Council of Autonomous Republic of Ajara is the supreme representative body of the Autonomous Republic of Ajara. The Supreme Council consists of members residing on the territory of the Autonomous Republic and is elected for four-year term. 15 members of Supreme Council are elected by the proportional electoral system and 6 deputies are elected by the majoritarian system. Georgian citizen from the age of 25 with a suffrage can become the member of Supreme Council. Chairmen References External linksSupreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara Politics of Adjara Politics of Georgia (country) Adjara Buildings and structures in Batumi {{Georgia-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
