Mamuka Bakhtadze

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Mamuka Bakhtadze (Georgian მამუკა ბახტაძე, English transcription Mamuka Bakhtadze ; born June 9, 1982 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian politician who served as Prime Minister of the country from June 20, 2018 to September 2, 2019. Previously, he was Minister of Finance (2017-2018) and before that as Director of the Georgian Railway Company (2013-2017). He is a member of the Georgian Dream party .

Education and early career

Bakhtadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR , then part of the Soviet Union . In 2003 he completed his studies in management and macroeconomics at the State University of Tbilisi and then graduated from the Georgian Technical University with a degree in electromechanics. He received his MBA from Lomonosov University in Moscow in 2005 and from Insead Business School in Fontainebleau in 2010 . After serving on the Supervisory Board of Georgian International Energy Corporation from October 2010 to November 2012 , he took over the position of Managing Director of Sakartwelos Rkinigsa, the Georgian state railway company, in March 2013. Critics viewed Bakhtadse's work on the Georgian Railway as a failure; the company's turnover halved during his tenure.

Political career

Bakhtadze during the 55th MSC 2019

On November 13, 2017, Mamuka Bakhtadze was appointed finance minister in Giorgi Kvirikashvili's second cabinet .

Kvirikashvili resigned as Prime Minister on June 13, 2018. The reason for this were differences with Bidzina Ivanishvili , the influential chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party. This led to the resignation of the entire cabinet.

The Georgian Dream named Bakhtadze, then 36 years old, to succeed Kvirikashvili. At that time he was still largely unknown; According to a survey conducted in May 2018, two weeks before Bakhadze was nominated, 55% of respondents had never heard of him. It was widely believed that his nomination was Ivanishvili’s personal choice because Bakhadze is believed to be a close friend of the Ivanishvili family.

The Bakhtadze cabinet won the parliamentary vote of confidence on June 20, 2018 with 99 votes against 6. The cabinet was confirmed by parliament on July 14 with 101 votes to 12 after the previously announced structural reforms in the cabinet ministries had been implemented. Bakhtadze promised to continue Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration and to implement “fundamental and innovative reforms”. The nomination of Bakhtadze was heavily criticized by the parliamentary opposition, in particular the European Georgia and the United National Movement .

Term of office

Bakhtadse's first overseas visit was in Brussels in July 2018 , where he reaffirmed in meetings with European officials that Georgia remains committed to the aspirations and goals of the European Union . In his address to the UN General Assembly in September 2018, Bakhtadze condemned the continued Russian military presence in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and spoke of a new Georgian peace initiative being offered to these entities.

Domestically, Bakhtadze presented various economic and political reform plans in 2018, for example in the education system and in relation to the green economy, including the policy of clean transport. He took part in a campaign to support Salome Zurabishvili’s candidacy for the Georgian presidency and hailed her election in November 2018 as a “victory for democracy”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze Announces Resignation , civil.ge, accessed: September 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Finance Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze Tapped to be Georgia's Next Prime Minister . In: Civil Georgia . Accessed January 19, 2019. 
  3. ^ A b What you need to know about the new Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze . In: JamNews , June 19, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2019. 
  4. ^ Georgian Finance Minister Nominated As Prime Minister (en) . June 14, 2018. Accessed January 19, 2019. 
  5. ↑ Bakhtadze's Cabinet Wins Confidence . In: Civil Georgia , June 20, 2018. 
  6. ^ Parliament Confirms Bakhtadze's New Cabinet . In: Civil Georgia , July 15, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2019. 
  7. ↑ In UNGA Speech, PM Bakhtadze Speaks of Russian Occupation, Engagement with Abkhaz, S.Ossetians . In: Civil Georgia , September 28, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2019. 
  8. ^ PM Bakhtadze Presents Education Reform Plan . In: Civil Georgia , September 14, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2019. 
  9. ↑ PM Bakhtadze Says Presidential Election 'Victory for Democracy' . In: Civil Georgia , November 30, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2019. 
personal data
SURNAME Bakhtadze, Mamuka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bakhtadze, Mamuka; ბახტაძე, მამუკა (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi