Giga Bokeria

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Giga Bokeria (2006)

Giorgi (Giga) Bokeria ( Georgian გიორგი (გიგა) ბოკერია ; born April 20, 1972 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian politician ( United National Movement ). From 2005 to 2008 he was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). From 2008 to 2010 he was Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia. He was one of the organizers of the Rose Revolution in Georgia in November 2003 and the protests in March 2015.

Life

Bokeria studied history and education at the Tbilisi State University . From 1989 to 1995 he was a leader in the student movement and an active member of the university's press club. From 1992 he also worked as a journalist: first for the daily newspaper 7 Dge (German: 7 days ), then for Mimomchiweli (German: the observer ). In 1993 he switched to state radio, where he researched for the program Pikis Saati (German rush hour traffic ). In 1994 he went to Radio Liberty , in 1995 he became the political editor of the newspaper Argumenti (German Argument ), and in 1996 he moderated the talk show Akcentebi (German Accents ) for the private television station Rustawi 2 .

In the same year he co-founded Levan Ramishvili , Giwi Targamadze and Dawit Zurabishvili of the Freedom Institute in Tbilisi, which initially opposed a ban on Rustavi 2 . It later worked against corruption and assisted the government in drawing up legal reforms in Georgia. Bokeria coordinated the human rights programs there and later served as senior legal advisor. After a violent attack on the institute in July 2002, he became an implacable opponent of Eduard Shevardnadze's government .

In February 2003 he traveled to Belgrade to study the replacement of Slobodan Milošević by the Serbian opposition movement. He then supported the development of the Georgian student movement Kmara! (Eng. Enough! ), who were able to use rooms of the Freedom Institute as a basis for action during the Rose Revolution . With the director Giorgi Chaindrawa , the writer Dawit Turashvili and his colleague from the Freedom Institute, David Zurabishvili, he formed a committee for civil resistance on November 10, 2003 , which promoted measures against the government in universities, organizations and the province.

In 2004, Bokeria became a member of the Georgian parliament , deputy chairman of the parliamentary legal committee and the committee on defense and security on a list of the National Movement - Democrats party . He is close to President Mikheil Saakashvili , getting him parliamentary majorities for controversial and unpopular bills. In August 2004 he took a stand against then Minister of the Interior, Irakli Okruashvili , who had a critical journalist from Gori arrested by the police for alleged drug trafficking. According to an analysis by the International Crisis Group (ICG), he is one of the most influential people in the inner circle of the Georgian President.

From June 2004 to April 2008 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), since 2005 PACE Vice-President and Vice-Chair of the parliamentary group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). In April 2008 he became Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia and in November 2010 Secretary of the National Security Council. After Giorgi Margwelashvili was elected president, he resigned in November 2013.

In March 2015, Bokeria was one of the leading opposition activists in one of the largest anti-government demonstrations in recent years. As a speaker at a rally with tens of thousands of Georgians on Freedom Square in the capital Tbilisi, he called for the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili .

Giga Bokeria is the son of the chess grandmaster Nana Alexandria . He is married to Tamar Tschergoleischwili, editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "Tabula" and has one child with her.

Fonts

  • Georgian Media in the 90s: A step to liberty . Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Tbilisi 1997 (with Giwi Targamadze, Levan Ramishvili)

literature

  • Alexandre Mikaberidze: Giga Bokeria . In: The Dictionary of Georgian National Biography (online version)

Web links

Commons : Giga Bokeria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Large demonstration against the Georgian government , derstandard.at, March 21, 2015
  2. ^ Tabula Magazine and TI Georgia's Ad Market Report , civil.ge, Dec. 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bokeria, Giga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES გიგა ბოკერია (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi