Dawit Gamqrelidse

Dawit Gamqrelidse ( Georgian დავით გამყრელიძე ; born April 2, 1965 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian politician . The pediatrician has been chairman of the New Conservative Party since 2003 and chairman of the Right Opposition faction and opposition leader in the Georgian parliament since April 2004 .

Life

In his youth he was part of the Georgian dissident scene. In 1988 he received his doctorate with distinction from the State Medical University in Tbilisi, and made an eventful career as an entrepreneur and politician. During the Soviet era (1990) he founded Georgia's first insurance company, Aldagi . It became one of the largest private companies in the country. In 1998 he was elected to the city council of Tbilisi, in October 1999 for Eduard Shevardnadse's Georgian Citizens' Union for the first time in the Georgian parliament . For a year he was chairman of the parliamentary health committee.

On September 17, 2000, Gamqrelidse and ten parliamentary colleagues founded an opposition group, the New Group . On June 15, 2001, he founded the New Conservative Party . It won an overwhelming victory in the regional elections in June 2002, winning over 40 percent of the vote nationwide. After two years of negotiations, the New Conservative Party united with the Industrialists' Party in March 2004 to form a conservatively oriented electoral alliance and formed the parliamentary group of the Right Opposition .

Gamqredlidze is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and co-founder and chairman of the Georgia for NATO Association , which sees itself as a lobby for Georgia's early NATO membership. He is also a board member of the Georgian think tank Partnership for Social Initiatives (PSI), the Georgian Insurance Association and the Caucasus School of Business .

Gamqrelidse ran in the early presidential elections in 2008 as his party's candidate. The candidacy was supported by the Industry will save Georgia party ( industrialists ) and the National Democratic Party .

After the defeat of the Right Opposition in the parliamentary elections in Georgia in 2012 , Gamqrelidze gave up his post as party leader and withdrew from politics.

Gamqrelidse is with Dr. Marina Maditschi married. They have two children: Irakli and Nino.

Fonts

• David Gamkrelidse: We Who Know That Evil Really Does Exist in the World . In: The Wall Street Journal (European Edition), July 5, 2002
• David Gamkrelidse: Georgia: At the Cusp of the Russian-American Relationship . December 16, 2002

Web links

• Official biography of Gamqrelidses (en / ge / ru)
• Biographical entry on the website of the Georgian Parliament (en, ge)
• Speeches Gamqrelidses (en / ge / ru)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Лидер "Новых правых" Давид Гамкрелидзе ушел из политики. In: Sputnik-Georgia. October 3, 2012, accessed June 8, 2020 (Russian).