Batumi City Assembly

Batumi City Assembly ბათუმის საკრებულო
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Chairperson of City Assembly	Suliko Tebidze [1]
Deputy Chairman	Natalia Zoidze
Second Deputy Chairman	Tamaz Salukvadze
Structure
Seats	35
Political groups	Majority (TBD)   Georgian Dream (16)   United National Movement (15)   For Georgia (2)   Lelo for Georgia (1)   Independent (1)
Elections
Voting system	Mixed-member proportional representation
Last election	October 2, 2021
Next election
Meeting place
Batumi City Hall 25 Luka Asatiani Street
Website
https://www.batumicc.ge/index.php

The Batumi Municipal Assembly (Georgian: ბათუმის საკრებულო, romanized: batumis sak'rebulo) is a representative body in the city of Batumi, Georgia. Currently consisting of 25 members; of these, 15 are proportional representatives and 10 are elected through single-member districts, representing their constituencies. During the 1990s, the city council did not function as a self-governing body and decisions in the city were made individually by authorities. At this period, the leader of the autonomous republic was Aslan Abashidze, whose authoritarian ruling ended after the Adjara’s Rose Revolution, on May 6, 2004. On October 5, 2006 the first local self-governmental election of the representative body took place.^[2] The council is assembled into session regularly, to consider subject matters such as code changes, utilities, taxes, city budget, oversight of city government, and more. Batumi sakrebulo members are being elected every four years. Currently, the city council has 5 committees. The last election was held in October 2017. The ruling party of “Georgian Dream” won the majority of seats. The current Chairperson of the Batumi City Assembly is Suliko Tebidze.

Composition[]

The members of the Sakrebulo are selected through a mixed electoral system. Of the 25 seats, 10 are filled through direct elections in local districts of the city. The remaining 15 members are chosen by political parties and are apportioned according to their support citywide. From 2017, city council had 19 members from the ruling Georgian Dream, 4 from the United National Movement, 1 from European Georgia and 1 from Alliance of Patriots of Georgia .^[3][4]

Powers[]

In accordance with the Code of Local Self-Government of the Organic Law of Georgia, the Sakrebulo exercises its powers to define the administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and its identity, organizational activities, determination of the personnel policy of the municipality, regulation, and control of the activities of executive bodies; In the fields of municipal property management, social, amenities and household utilities, land use and natural resources us municipal territory planning, transport, and road economy, accounting, support for innovative development and informatization.^[5]

The authority of the Sakrebulo in the field of administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and defining its identity includes:

• Creation and abolition of administrative units in the municipality, change of their borders
• Establishment of local self-government symbols - coat of arms, flag, and other symbols and make changes in them
• establish the rules for the introduction of honorary titles and awards of the self-governing unit and their award
• names of geographical objects, Establishing the rule of the numbering of buildings in the settlements
• Making a decision on creating, joining, or leaving a non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity together with other self-governing units.
• approval of the socio-economic development strategy of the self-governing unit
• approval of measures and programs to be taken to attract investments and support innovative development in the territory of the municipality

Last election results[]

The most recent city council election was held on 2 October 2021, and the results were as follows:

Party		Lead candidate	Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Georgian Dream	Aslan Baladze	30,136	39.82	14.09	16	3
	United National Movement	Kakhaber Kashibadze	29,065	38.4	13.48	15	11
	For Georgia	Nino Batsiashvili	7,587	10.03	New	3	New
	Lelo for Georgia	Irakli Kupradze	2,491	3.29	New	1	New
	Girchi - More Freedom	Temur Gorgadze	1,193	1.57	New	0	New
	Alliance of Patriots	Zaur Gabaidze	917	1.21	5.52	0	1
	New Political Center - Girchi	Levan Bakuridze	855	1.13	New	0	New
	Third Power	Beka Diasamidze	817	1.08	0.16	0
	European Georgia	Vakhtang Kaloiani	748	0.98	5.79	0	1
	Georgian Labor Party	Davit Robakidze	698	0.92	2.27	0
	Droa	Dimitri Darchia	407	0.53	New	0	New
	Others		762	0.85
Total			75,676	100.0		35
Electorate/voter turnout
Source: [1]

2017 election results[]

Gallery[]

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  City Council Building

See also[]

• Local government in Georgia (country)
• Tbilisi City Assembly
• Kutaisi City Assembly
• Poti City Assembly

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