Irakli Kobachidze

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Irakli Kobachidze

Irakli Kobachidze ( Georgian : ირაკლი კობახიძე, born September 25, 1978 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian politician . He is the Executive Secretary of the Georgian Dream Party , from November 2016 to May 2019 he was Chairman of the Parliament of the Republic of Georgia .

Career

Kobakhidze graduated from law at the State Ivane Javakhishvili-University Tbilisi . In this department he received his doctorate in 2006 from Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Between 2005 and 2012 he was an assistant professor at Tbilisi State University. From 2007 to 2008 Kobachidze worked as a junior researcher at the Tinatin Tsereteli Research Institute for State and Law . From 2009–2011 he worked as head of a reform project for local self-government that was funded by a United Nations development program. Afterwards Kobachidze worked until 2013 at the Georgian University and the Caucasus University in Tbilisi as a guest lecturer and lecturer. He continued his collaboration with the UN project for the modernization of regional and local self-government in 2014.

On November 18, 2016, the delegates of the ruling Georgian Dream, which forms the absolute majority in parliament, secretly elected Kobachidze as chairman of the Georgian House of Representatives with 118 valid votes. The opposition United National Movement , which opposed this appointment, stayed away from the vote.

In March 2017, Kobachidze came into conflict with President Giorgi Margelashvili . The reason was the action plan initiated by the head of state on the planned constitutional changes, with the aim of better informing the population about the individual measures. Kobachidze described Margelashvili’s move, which he said should be incumbent on parliament, as disrespectful and contradictory.

On June 21, 2019, Kobachidze resigned as President of Parliament. This was preceded by protests in front of the House of Representatives with more than 200 injured. They were ignited by the appearance of Russian Duma member Sergei Gavrilov , who had been seated as chairman of the President's chair at a meeting of the interparliamentary assembly of Christian Orthodox members and who had given a speech in Russian from there. Georgian media had previously spread the false report that Gavrilov had been involved in fighting in the context of the 2008 Caucasus War between Russia and Georgia.

Private

Kobachidze is married and has two sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Civil Georgia Civil.Ge | Председателем нового Парламента избран Ираклий Кобахидзе. Retrieved May 18, 2018 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Sputnik: Биография Ираклия Кобахидзе. Retrieved May 18, 2018 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Избрание Ираклия Кобахидзе председателем парламента Грузии вызвало недовольство оппозициАи . ( sova.news [accessed on May 18, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Ираклий Кобахидзе: Президент Грузии не уважает парламент . In: ИА REGNUM . ( regnum.ru [accessed May 18, 2018]).
  5. ^ André Ballin: Georgia's head of parliament resigns after protests. Der Standard , June 21, 2019, accessed the same day.
  6. ↑ Who is the man in line to become Georgia's next Parliament Speaker? Retrieved May 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kobachidze, Irakli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ირაკლი კობახიძე (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi