Giorgi Margwelashvili

This article deals with the Georgian politician Giorgi Margwelashvili. For other people see Giorgi Margwelaschwili (disambiguation) .

Giorgi Margwelaschwili (2014)

Giorgi Margwelaschwili ( Georgian გიორგი მარგველაშვილი ; born September 4, 1969 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian politician ( non-party ) and was President of Georgia from November 2013 to December 2018 .

Life

In 1992 Margwelashvili graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology at the Ivane Javakhashvili State University in Tbilisi . Between 1993 and 1994 he studied sociology at the Central European University in Budapest . From 1992 to 1995 the future president worked as a tour guide in a company (with a focus on mountain tourism), then as a deputy manager in a publishing house. Between 1996 and 1997 he taught philosophy at the Free University of Tbilisi . From 1995 to 2000, Margwelashvili held the position of program advisor at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

From 2000 to 2012 he worked at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and from 2006 to 2010 he headed the research department of this institution.

Political career

From October 25, 2012 to July 18, 2013, Margvelashvili was Georgia's Minister of Education . As a candidate for the Georgian Dream alliance , he received over 66 percent of the vote in the presidential election in October 2013 (62% according to other sources) and thus an absolute majority. On November 17, 2013, Margwelashvili was sworn in as the successor of Mikheil Saakashvili as President of Georgia.

As education minister he achieved little notoriety, but was supported in the election campaign by the politically influential oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili , who became a billionaire in Russia. Like his mentor, Margvelashvili wanted to improve relations with Russia in 2013, which had been on hold since the five-day war that Saakashvili had lost in 2008 . This desired also from Russia detente would also be a precondition for Georgia's EU - and NATO -Ambitionen. In 2018, Margwelashvili explained about the Caucasus War that Georgia had been occupied before, since the 1990s, in a hybrid war- like manner, and described this as a punishment for a country that wanted to be a free, independent nation.

Web links

Commons : Giorgi Margwelaschwili  - Collection of Images

• Margarita Antidze: Georgian PM names pro-Western ally presidential candidate ; Reuters, May 11, 2013
• Giorgi Margwelaschwili in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Civil Georgia: Margvelashvili Named as GD's Presidential Candidate ( Memento from 1 May 2015, Internet Archive ), May 11, 2013.
2. ↑ Биография Георгия Маргвелашвили. Риа Новости, October 25, 2013, accessed March 31, 2018 (Russian). 
3. ^ Die Zeit: Margwelashvili wins presidential election , October 27, 2013
4. ↑ Margwelashvili replaces Saakashvili. In: tagesschau.de . November 17, 2013, archived from the original on November 20, 2013 ; Retrieved November 17, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Moscow wants to improve relations with Georgia. In: Wiener Zeitung , October 29, 2013.
6. ↑ Fred Kempe: A Conversation with Giorgi Margvelashwili and Petro Poroshenko ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Minute 11