Avef Beridze ( ka, ავთანდილ ბერიძე; 11 January 1955 – 12 November 2020) was a Georgian politician. He was a chairman of the

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from 28 October 2012 to 28 November 2016. Beridze is a native of

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 ...

. Formerly a member of the Republican Party of Georgia, he co-founded the public movement Serve to Georgia, in 2011, together with Murman Dumbadze, who had been dismissed from the Republican Party for his opposition to a planned Turkish-Georgian deal on rebuilding of an Ottoman-era mosque in Batumi. Both Dumbadze and Beridze then joined the

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party founded by the tycoon

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to challenge

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's United National Movement in the October 2012 parliamentary election. After the Georgian Dream's victory in both nationwide and

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legislative elections in his native Adjara, an autonomous entity on Georgia's

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coast, Beridze was elected the chairman of the Supreme Council of Adjara, being the only candidate nominated for that position on 28 October 2012. His tenure expired in November 2016. Beridze then served in the administration of Adjara's government and the directorate of environmental protection of Adjara.

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