Ruling party elects Irakli Kobakhidze new party chair replacing Bidzina Ivanishvili

    The ruling Georgian Dream party has officially elected Irakli Kobakhidze its new chair at a party assembly today. 

    The post became vacant after the party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili left the party and politics earlier this week, saying his ‘mission has been accomplished.’ 

    Member of the ninth and the tenth convocation of the Georgian parliament, Irakli Kobakhidze has served as speaker between 2016 and 2019.

    He resigned in June 2019 during the large-scale protests in Tbilisi, sparked by the presence of Russian MPs in the Georgian parliament.  

    The Georgian Dream delegates have also elected a new composition of 20-member political council composed of:

    1. Kakha Kaladze
    2. Vasil Maglaperidze
    3. Giorgi Gakharia
    4. Archil Talakvadze
    5. Maia Tskitishvili
    6. Giorgi Voslski
    7. Irakli Gharibashvili
    8. Tea Tsulukiani
    9. Mmauka Mdinaradze
    10. Kakha Kuchava
    11. Vakhtang Gomelauri
    12. Ekaterine Tikaradze
    13. Ivane Machavariani
    14. Maka Botchorishvili
    15. Shalva Papuashvili
    16. Mariam Kvrivishvili
    17. Nikoloz Samkharadze
    18. Sozar Subari
    19. Dimitri Samkharadze
    20. Tornike Rizhvadze

    Expressing his gratitude to the party and its founder Ivanishvili, the new chair Kobakhidze said he will spare no efforts to make Georgia a truly European country. 

     

     

    Source -agenda.ge


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    19.01.2021 08:36





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