Tengis Sigua

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Tengis Sigua ( Georgian თენგიზ სიგუა; born November 9, 1934 in Lentechi , Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR ; † January 21, 2020 ) was a Georgian politician and Prime Minister of Georgia from 1990 to 1991 and from 1992 to 1993.

biography

Sigua graduated from the Georgian Technical University in 1957 with a degree in engineering . After graduating, he began his professional activity as an engineer in the Rustavi steelworks. From 1962 he worked as a senior researcher, laboratory manager and then as deputy director in the Institute of Metallurgy in the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR . In 1989 he was promoted to director of this facility.

From 1982 to 1987 Sigua was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .

Even before Georgia had gained its independence from the Soviet Union, Sigua became chairman of the Council of Ministers in November 1990 under the later President Zviad Gamsachurdia . When the relationship with Gamsakhurdia cooled down, Sigua left this post in August 1991. Together with the leader of the Georgian national guard Tengis Kitowani and the head of the paramilitary unit Sakartwelos Mchedrioni (Georgian horsemen) Jaba Iosseliani , Sigua organized a successful coup against Gamsakhurdia in December 1991. After the president was overthrown in January 1992, Sigua was appointed interim head of the Georgian government. In November 1992 Sigua was confirmed in office by the newly formed Georgian parliament. However, after Parliament rejected the government's proposed budget in August 1993, Sigua resigned.

After leaving government business, Sigua went into the opposition and criticized the government of Eduard Shevardnadze . Sigua spent a few months in prison in 1995 because of organizing a march of Georgian refugees to Abkhazia . After his release he did not return to active politics.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Shale Horowitz: From Ethnic Conflict to Stillborn Reform: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia . Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2005, ISBN 1-58544-396-4 , pp. 98 .
  2. ↑ Sigua, Tengiz. In: Dictionary of Georgian National Biography. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013 ; accessed on January 23, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Sigua, Tengis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (1990–1991 and 1992–1993)
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Lentechi , Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2020