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Lelo For Georgia
Lelo for Georgia () is a centrist liberal political party in Georgia that was created at the end of 2019 by businessmen Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze. The party has attracted a number of prominent political figures and parties (through mergers), including David Usupashvili's Development Movement, the New Rights Party and Pikria Chikhradze. It also has attracted a number of centre-left political figures, such as Grigol Gegelia. Political ambitions The party is seeking to contest the parliamentary elections in Georgia, scheduled for October 2020. The party says that it seeks to "defeat the bipolar system" that it sees as dominant in Georgia. They are close from the opposition alliance which has been formed during early 2020 in order to contest the Georgian Dream parliamentary majority. Political views Lelo for Georgia is a centrist and liberal party, which aims to transcend the dichotomy between the Georgian Dream and the United National Movement, thus putting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamuka Khazaradze
Mamuka Khazaradze ( ka, მამუკა ხაზარაძე; born 29 December 1966) is a Georgian businessman who co-founded the largest Georgian universal bank, JSC TBC Bank in 1992. In 2019, he moved into politics, setting up a political movement Lelo for Georgia. A criminal charge was filed against Khazaradze and his business partner, alleging that they were involved in money-laundering, after he announced formation of Lelo. It was deemed as an attack on political pluralism in Georgia. Early life and education He graduated from Tbilisi Technical University in 1988 and also holds an executive degree from Harvard Business School, where he studied during 1998–2000. In 2014, Khazaradze was awarded EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Georgia – the first such award to a Georgian business. He was awarded the Presidential Order of Excellence in 2010. TBC Bank Group PLC and JSC TBC Bank JSC TBC Bank completed its London Stock Exchange IPO in June 2014, raising US$256&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pikria Chikhradze
Pikria Chikhradze ( ka, ფიქრია ჩიხრაძე; born 27 April 1966) is a Georgian politician. She has been a senior figure in the opposition New Rights Party since 1999 and then in the Lelo for Georgia party, within which the New Rights merged in 2019. She was member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1995 to 2008 and political adviser to the President of Georgia from 2015 to 2018. Early life and career Born in the town of Oni in what was then Soviet Georgia, Chikhradze graduated from the Tbilisi State University (TSU) with a degree in philology in 1989 and from the Tbilisi Theological Academy with a degree in Christian Anthropology in 1993. In the late 1980s, she was a leading pro-independence student activist and helped organize a youth vigilante group tasked with protection of the endangered monuments of Georgian material culture. Between 1990 and 1996, she taught in a school in Tbilisi and worked at the laboratory for Christian culture studies at the TSU. Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrist Parties In Asia
Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to the left or the right. Both centre-left and centre-right politics involve a general association with centrism that is combined with leaning somewhat to their respective sides of the left–right political spectrum. Various political ideologies, such as Christian democracy, Pancasila, and certain forms of liberalism like social liberalism, can be classified as centrist, as can the Third Way, a modern political movement that attempts to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating for a synthesis of centre-right economic platforms with centre-left social policies. Usage by political parties by country Australia There have been centrists on both sides of politics who serve alongside the various factions within the Liberal and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Establishments In Georgia (country)
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2021 Georgian Local Elections
The Georgian local self-government election, 2021, ( ka, საქართველოს ადგილობრივი თვითმმართველობის ორგანოების არჩევნები) was held on 2 October 2021 to elect the bodies of local government of Georgia. Tbilisi mayoral election, 2021 The Tbilisi mayoral election, 2021, (Georgian: თბილისის მერის არჩევნები) was held on 2 October 2021 to elect the Mayor of Tbilisi in parallel to the Tbilisi City Sakrebulo elections. The main candidates for the mayoral election are Kakhi Kaladze, current Mayor of Tbilisi and former Minister of Energy from the ruling Georgian Dream party, Nika Melia, Member of Parliament from the United National Movement, and Giorgi Gakharia, former Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from the recently established For Georgia party. In total, 16 candidates were nominated for the Tbilisi mayoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Georgian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 31 October and 21 November 2020 to elect the 150 members of Parliament. The ruling Georgian Dream party led by Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia won re-election for a third term in office, making it the first party in Georgian history to do so. The election also saw a record number of opposition parties elected to parliament. The opposition boycotted the second round of the elections and called on voters to abstain; turnout in the second round was subsequently only 26.29%. Electoral system In the previous election, 150 members of Parliament were elected by two methods; 77 were from a single nationwide constituency using closed list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold which was to be lowered to 3% for the 2020 election. The other 73 were elected in single-member constituencies using two-round system, in which candidates had to receive over 50% of the valid vote to win in the first round. A second round was held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaklia
Anaklia () is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea, near the border with Abkhazia. History The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid- Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical ''Heraclea'' of Colchis, ''Anaclia'' of later authors, and ''Anarghia'' of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)). Solomon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBC Bank
, logo = TBC Bank logo.svg , logo_size = 100 , image = TBC Bank building.jpg , image_size = 250 , image_caption = TBC headquarters at Marjanishvili avenue, Tbilisi , type = Joint Stock Company , traded_as = , industry = Banking, Financial services , foundation = 1992 , location_city = Tbilisi , location_country =Georgia , key_people = Nikoloz Enukidze (Chairman) Vakhtang Butskhrikidze(CEO) , area_served = Georgia Azerbaijan Israel Uzbekistan , products = Credit cards, consumer banking, corporate banking, finance and insurance, investment banking, mortgage loans, private banking, private equity, wealth management , revenue = GEL1,002.7 million (2021) , operating_income = GEL921.4 million (2021) , net_income = GEL809.0 million (2021) , assets = GEL24.509 billion (2021) , equity = GEL3.692 billion (2021) , num_employees = , divisions = Corporate Banking, Retail Banking, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Department Of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nations, its primary duties are advising the U.S. president on international relations, administering diplomatic missions, negotiating international treaties and agreements, and representing the United States at the United Nations conference. Established in 1789 as the first administrative arm of the U.S. executive branch, the State Department is considered among the most powerful and prestigious executive agencies. It is headed by the secretary of state, who reports directly to the U.S. president and is a member of the Cabinet. Analogous to a foreign minister, the secretary of state serves as the federal government's chief diplomat and representative abroad, and is the first Cabinet official in the order of precedence and in the presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgi Ugulava
Giorgi "Gigi" Ugulava ( ka, გიგი უგულავა) (born August 15, 1975) is a Georgian politician and the former Mayor of Tbilisi (2005–2013). He was one of the former leaders of the United National Movement (UNM) party and former close ally of the former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. On 10 February 2020, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison . However, on May 15, President Salome Zourabichvili pardoned Ugulava. Early career Born in Tbilisi, Ugulava studied at the Tbilisi Theological Seminary (1992-4) and the University of Saarbrücken (1995-7), and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the Tbilisi State University in 1998. Having briefly worked as a journalist for a Tbilisi-based Iberia TV, Internews, and Transparency International (1997-9), he became a consultant for the Eurasia Foundation in 2000. He directed the World Bank Association of Legal and Public Education from 2001 to 2003, and helped organize the youth organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United National Movement (Georgia)
United National Movement ( ka, ერთიანი ნაციონალური მოძრაობა, ''Ertiani Natsionaluri Modzraoba'', ENM) is a liberal and pro-western political party in Georgia founded by Mikheil Saakashvili which rose to power following the Rose Revolution. Since the 2012 parliamentary election, it is the main opposition party. History United National Movement was founded in October 2001 by Mikheil Saakashvili, who has recently resigned from the government of Eduard Shevardnadze and left the ruling Union of Citizens party, accusing it of corruption and state capture. The party was intended to provide a focus for the Georgian reformist politicians supporting reforms to strengthen institutions of liberal democracy and further integration of Georgia into EU and NATO. Having achieved significant success in 2002 local election, the party looked forward to the 2003 parliamentary election as an opportunity to challenge the long-lasting rule of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian Dream
Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia ( ka, ქართული ოცნება – დემოკრატიული საქართველო, ''Kartuli ocneba – Demok’rat’iuli Sakartvelo'') is a social democratic political party in Georgia. The party was established on 19 April 2012 by the billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili. Georgian Dream and its partners in a coalition also named Georgian Dream won majorities in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 general elections. The party is currently led by Irakli Kobakhidze as Party Chairman and Irakli Garibashvili as Prime Minister. History The party evolved from the public movement Georgian Dream, launched by Ivanishvili as a platform for his political activities in December 2011. Since Ivanishvili was not a Georgian citizen at the moment of the party's inaugural session, the lawyer Manana Kobakhidze was elected as an interim, nominal chairman of the Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia. The party also includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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