The Batumi Municipal Assembly ( ka, ბათუმის საკრებულო, tr) is a representative body in the city of

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. 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,

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, oversight of city government, and more. Batumi ''sakrebulo'' members are being elected every four years. Currently, the city council has 5 committees. The last election was held in October 2021. The current Chairperson of the Batumi City Assembly is Ramaz Jincharadze.

Composition

The members of the Sakrebulo are selected through a mixed electoral system. Of the 35 seats, 7 are filled through direct elections in local districts of the city. The remaining 28 members are chosen by political parties and are apportioned according to their support citywide. From 2021, city council has 17 members from the ruling

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, 14 from the United National Movement, 2 from

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and 1 Independent.

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 municipality, regulation, and control of the activities of executive bodies; In the fields of municipal property management, social, amenities and household utilities, land use and natural resources us municipal territory planning, transport, and road economy, accounting, support for innovative development and informatization. The authority of the Sakrebulo in the field of administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and defining its identity includes: * Creation and abolition of administrative units in the municipality, change of their borders * Establishment of local self-government symbols - coat of arms, flag, and other symbols and make changes in them * establish the rules for the introduction of honorary titles and awards of the self-governing unit and their award * names of geographical objects, Establishing the rule of the numbering of buildings in the settlements * Making a decision on creating, joining, or leaving a non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity together with other self-governing units. * approval of the socio-economic development strategy of the self-governing unit * approval of measures and programs to be taken to attract investments and support innovative development in the territory of the municipality

Last election results

The most recent city council

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was held on 2 October 2021, and the results were as follows: ! colspan=2, Party ! Lead candidate ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- , - , bgcolor=#0D00B3, , align=left,

, align=left, Aslan Baladze , 30,136 , 39.82 , 14.09 , 16 , 3 , - , bgcolor=#e4012e, , align=left, United National Movement , align=left, Kakhaber Kashibadze , 29,065 , 38.40 , 13.48 , 15 , 11 , - , bgcolor=#702F92, , align=left,

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, 7,587 , 10.03 , ''New'' , 3 , ''New'' , - , bgcolor=#fad406, , align=left,

, align=left, Irakli Kupradze , 2,491 , 3.29 , ''New'' , 1 , ''New'' , - , colspan=8 bgcolor=lightgrey, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left,

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, align=left, Temur Gorgadze , 1,193 , 1.57 , ''New'' , 0 , ''New'' , - , bgcolor=#e7b031, , align=left, Alliance of Patriots , align=left, Zaur Gabaidze , 917 , 1.21 , 5.52 , 0 , 1 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left,

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, align=left, Levan Bakuridze , 855 , 1.13 , ''New'' , 0 , ''New'' , - , bgcolor=#ff0000, , align=left, Strategy Aghmashenebeli , align=left, Beka Diasamidze , 817 , 1.08 , 0.16 , 0 , , - , bgcolor=#003C7B, , align=left,

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, align=left, Vakhtang Kaloiani , 748 , 0.98 , 5.79 , 0 , 1 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Labour Party , align=left, Davit Robakidze , 698 , 0.92 , 2.27 , 0 , , - , bgcolor=red, , align=left, Droa , align=left, Dimitri Darchia , 407 , 0.53 , ''New'' , 0 , ''New'' , - , bgcolor=#D3D3D3, , align=left, Others , align=left, , 762 , 0.85 , , , , - ! colspan=3, Total ! 75,676 ! 100.0 ! ! 35 ! , - ! colspan=3, Electorate/voter turnout ! ! ! ! ! , - , colspan=8, Source

Previous election results

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! colspan=2, Party ! Votes ! % ! Seats , - , bgcolor=, , align=left,

, 26,415 , 53.91 , 19 , - , bgcolor= #e4012e, , align=left, United National Movement , 12,209 , 24.92 , 4 , - , bgcolor= #003876, , align=left, Movement for Liberty - European Georgia, European Georgia , 3,319 , 6.77 , 1 , - , bgcolor= #e7b031, , align=left, Alliance of Patriots , 3,296 , 6.73 , 1 , - , colspan=5 bgcolor=lightgrey, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Labour Party , 1,561 , 3.19 , 0 , - , bgcolor= #004a99, , align=left, Democratic Movement , 942 , 1.92 , 0 , - , bgcolor= #ff0000, , align=left, Strategy Aghmashenebeli , 451 , 0.92 , 0 , - ! colspan=1, Total ! ! 50,935 ! 100.0 ! 25 , - , colspan=5, Source

;2014 Batumi City Assembly in 2014

;2010 ;2006

Explanatory notes

References