Zurab Chiaberashvili

Zurab Chiaberashvili, 2005

Zurab Tschiaberaschwili ( Georgian ჭიაბერაშვილი ზურაბ * 6. June 1972 ) is a Georgian politician ( no party affiliation ). The political scientist was mayor of the Georgian capital Tbilisi from April 2004 to July 2005 . Since 2005 he has been Georgian ambassador to the Council of Europe .

Life

He received his PhD from Tbilisi State University and postgraduate studies at the New School in New York City . First he worked at the non-governmental Freedom Institute in Tbilisi, which strives to uphold political and personal freedoms in Georgia. He made a name for himself as a critic of the then President Eduard Shevardnadze , whom he denied the ability to solve Georgia's internal problems.

In 2002 he became executive director of the independent International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) , the organization which, through a parallel count , proved that the Georgian parliamentary elections of November 2003 had been falsified. After the Rose Revolution , Parliament elected him on November 30, 2003, on the proposal of Interim President Nino Burjanadze, with 106 votes against one vote as chairman of the Central Electoral Commission . According to the OECD , he organized a clean run of the Georgian presidential elections in January and the Georgian parliamentary elections in March 2004.

On April 19, 2004 , Chiaberashvili was appointed mayor of Tbilisi by President Mikheil Saakashvili . He gained a great public reputation for his fight against corruption in the administration and illegal new buildings in the capital. One of its main goals was to cut down on state bureaucracy and reduce the number of employees in the city administration. He was popular with the opposition, but came into conflict with parliamentarians of the presidential party National Movement - Democrats . Saakashvili replaced him on July 12, 2005 . Parliament elected him Georgian ambassador to the Council of Europe .

Web links

• Report: Tschiaberaschwili's first months in the mayor's office (s)