Irakli Kobakhidze

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Irakli Kobakhidze
ირაკლი კობახიძე
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Chairman of Georgian Dream
Assumed office
January 11, 2021
Preceded byBidzina Ivanishvili
Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia
In office
November 18, 2016 – June 21, 2019
PresidentGiorgi Margvelashvili
Salome Zourabichvili
Prime MinisterGiorgi Kvirikashvili
Mamuka Bakhtadze
Preceded byDavit Usupashvili
Succeeded byArchil Talakvadze[1]
Tamar Chugoshvili (acting)
Leader of The Parliamentary Majority
Assumed office
December 11, 2020
Preceded by
Member of the Parliament of Georgia
Assumed office
November 18, 2016
Executive Secretary of Georgian Dream
In office
January, 2015 – January 11, 2021
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born (1978-09-25) September 25, 1978 (age 42)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
NationalityGeorgian
Political partyGeorgian Dream (January 2015-present)
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Irakli Kobakhidze (Georgian: ირაკლი კობახიძე; born 25 September 1978) is a Georgian politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, Member of Parliament since 2016.

He was the Executive Secretary and Political Council Member of the ruling party “Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia”, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Professor at the Tbilisi State University, former Chairman of the State Constitutional Commission and the author of the present Constitution of Georgia.[2]

Biography[]

Kobakhidze graduated from the Law Faculty of the Tbilisi State University in 2000. Later, in 2002-2006, he advanced his legal education at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany, where he was awarded the LLM and PhD degrees.[3] Since 2006, Irakli Kobakhidze has worked with international organizations and academic institutions. For several years, he held expert and managerial positions at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Simultaneously, he held academic positions at the Tbilisi State University and Caucasus University.[4]

Irakli Kobakhidze with the chairperson of the party, Bidzina Ivanishvili

In 2015, Irakli Kobakhidze was appointed as Executive Secretary of the Georgian Dream party. On this position, he, together with Kakha Kaladze, the Secretary General of the party, implemented inner-party reforms mainly focused on strengthening regional structures and renewing the political team of the party. He was the deputy campaign manager for the 2016 parliamentary elections and the campaign manager for the 2017 municipal elections, thus playing an important role in the remarkable electoral success of the party in these years.[5]

In 2017-2018, under his leadership, a wide-scale constitutional reform was implemented in Georgia. The new constitution established a European type parliamentary system of government. It divided competencies among different branches of government in accordance with the principle of separation of powers, introduced the proportional system of parliamentary elections, strengthened the role of the Parliament and the political rights of the opposition, advanced the constitutional guarantees of human rights, independence of the judiciary and local self-government, and stipulated EU and NATO integration as the constitutional task of all constitutional bodies.[6]

Under Irakli Kobakhidze's leadership, the Parliament of Georgia strengthened its international ties – the Parliament was actively involved in the implementation of the non-recognition policy of the occupied regions of Georgia; the Parliamentary Assemblies of Georgia-Ukraine-Moldova and Georgia-Poland were established; strategic cooperation agreements were signed with a number of the Parliaments of the partner countries.[7][8]

Irakli Kobakhidze made the decision to resign from the chairmanship when Russian Duma Deputy Sergei Gavrilov arbitrarily set into the chair of the speaker of Parliament during the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy at the plenary session hall of the Parliament of Georgia.[9] Currently, Irakli Kobakhidze is a Member of Parliament, Vice-President of PACE, Executive Secretary, Political Council Member and campaign manager of the Georgian Dream party, as well as Professor at the Law Faculty of the Tbilisi State University.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Chairman of the Parliament - Biography".
  2. ^ "Irakli Kobakhidze - Parliament of Georgia".
  3. ^ "Georgian Dream - Political Council - Irakli Kobakhidze".
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Georgian Dream - Irakli Kobakhidze".
  5. ^ "Irakli Kobakhidze: The Georgian Dream Achieved a Convincing Victory, We Concluded These Elections With an 85 Percent Victory".
  6. ^ "Irakli Kobakhidze: the Constitutional reform constitutes the logical outcome of the strict democratization recently undertaken in Georgia".
  7. ^ "Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine Inaugurate Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in Tbilisi".
  8. ^ "Georgian-Polish parliament speakers sign cooperation deal".
  9. ^ "Georgian Parliament Speaker resigns amid last night's protest around Russian MPs".

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