The National Democratic Party (, ''erovnul-demokratiuli partia'') is a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
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. It was established in 1988 by
Giorgi Chanturia
Giorgi Chanturia ( ka, გიორგი ჭანტურია, ; 19 August 1959, in Tbilisi – 3 December 1994) was a Georgian politician and the National Democratic Party leader who was murdered in Tbilisi, Georgia in December 1994.
He en ...
as a radical splinter group of the
Ilia Chavchavadze Society, although an earlier party with the same name also existed among the Georgian intelligentsia and in the
Democratic Republic of Georgia
The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; ka, საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა ') was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to ...
from 1917 to 1924.
[Svante Cornell, ''Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus'', Routledge, 2005, p. 147]
At the
2012 elections, the party won 3,050 votes, 0.14% of the national total. Recently the party joined the
Strength is in Unity–United Opposition coalition before the
2018 presidential election. The current leader of the party is Bachuki Kardava.
References
1988 establishments in Georgia (country)
Political parties established in 1988
Political parties in Georgia (country)
Centre-right parties in Georgia (country)
Pro-independence parties in the Soviet Union
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