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Giga Bokeria
Georgian politician
Giorgi (Giga) Bokeria (Georgian: გიორგი (გიგა) ბოკერია, born 20 April 1972 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian politician and was the secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia from November 2010 to November 2013.
Career
From 1989 to 1995, Bokeria was one of the leaders of various student movements, in particular an active member of the Press Club of Tbilisi State University. In 1992, he began working as a journalist, in the newspaper 7 Dge (7 Days), as a political editor of newspaper Mimomkhilveli (Observer) – 1992–1993, journalist with the Pikis Saati (Rush Hour) program of Channel 1 of State Radio −1993, journalist of Radio Liberty – 1994, political editor of newspaper Argumenti (Argument) – 1995–1996, Akcentebi (Accents) talk show host of Rustavi 2 broadcasting company – 1996.
In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Bokeria co-founded the Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.
In 2003, after a visit to Serbia to study peaceful revolution techniques, Bokeria helped bring Serb activists from the youth movement Otpor! to Georgia to train students in the same techniques. As a result, the youth movement "Kmara" was established, which played a leading role in the November 2003 Rose Revolution. After the Revolution, Bokeria was elected to Parliament where he has authored a number laws to strengthen human rights in Georgia.
Bokeria was a Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2008. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legal Issues and is a Member of Committee on Defense and Security. From 2005 to 2008 he was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and he was vice-chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the assemb Georgian-Ukrainian politician (born 1967) Mikheil Saakashvili (; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist. He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. He is the founder and former chairman of Georgia's United National Movement party. From May 2015 until November 2016, Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast. After resigning, he was temporarily exiled, but returned in 2019 under a new President. Saakashvili returned to Georgia in 2021, and has been imprisoned there since then. Saakashvili entered Georgian politics in 1995 as a member of parliament and Minister of Justice under President Eduard Shevardnadze. He then founded the opposition United National Movement party. In 2003, as a leading opposition figure, he accused the government of rigging the 2003 Georgian parliamentary election, triggering mass street protests and President Shevardnadze's ouster in the bloodless Rose Revolution. Saakashvili's key role in the protests led to his election as President in 2004. He was reelected in 2008. However, his party lost the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election. Term limits meant he could not stand again, and an opposition candidate won the 2013 presidential election. As president, Saakashvili oversaw far-reaching reforms. His government fired and replaced the entire police force, hoping to root out corruption, and pursued a zero-tolerance policy towards crime. Its neoliberal economic policy abolished the minimum wage, and lowered corporate income tax from 20% to 15% and dividend tax from 10% to 5%. Several ministries were abolished and 60,000 civil servants dismissed, slashing government spending, although the military budget rose to 9.2% of GDP by 2007. In 2009, Forbes ranked Georgia's tax burden as the fourth lowest in the world. GDP g Ia Antadze, Radio “Liberty” “The National Movement has become a force where neither principles nor values matter. The controversy is about who is more loyal to Saakashvili,” – Giga Bokeria, the leader of European Georgia, said on PalitraNews. When asked whether it would be more appropriate for him to cooperate with Levan Khabeishvili’s National Movement or Nika Melia’s National Movement, Bokeria answered that it “doesn’t matter, as the atmosphere in the team and the rules of the game are the result of the work of all the figures of the National Movement, including Melia and Khabeishvili.” “A part of this team made a decision that in order to fight against Ivanishvili, they should become like Ivanishvili’s team in terms of populism, in terms of throwing mud at each other, etc,” said Bokeria. Regarding the issue of the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Bokeria points out he does not expect President Salome Zurabishvili to pardon him, considering her a product of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s regime. “I don’t oppose Zurabishvili personally, but I consider her a product of Ivanishvili’s regime. She does not understand what a tool pardon is,” said Bokeria. He noted that the government should not allow for a dramatic outcome regarding Mikheil Saakashvili. “I would be glad, as a citizen of this country, if they did not allow a dramatic outcome for their own interest. For the moment, Ivanishvili is satisfied with the current situation. This is an opportunity for him to demonstrate his strength,” said Giga Bokeria. For the record, Levan Khabeishvili, one of the leaders of the National Movement, is to participate in the elections for the chairman of the party against the current chair Nika Melia. Related Story: UNM Chair Invites Society to Engage in Party’s Ongoing Process Tags:Giga BokeriaUNM Chair ElectionsMikheil Saakashvili
“Giga Bokeria as a President!!!”
As soon as I write something about the government, boom starts on the facebook. Mostly, the fan-club members of Vano Merabishvili and Zurab Adeishvili are active. They try to convince each other that I have invented the story about the cracks of the government.
The same happened last week but I think the most important is what really happened in the government. Initially, the brother-in-law of the head of the Special Operative Department Erekle Kodua, Mikheil Zhorzholiani, was arrested. Several days later Kodua himself was dismissed from the SOD; he was appointed in a different department. The favorite and hero of Mikheil Saakashvili, Erekle Kodua, whom Merabishvili (minister of internal affairs) hardly stood him, suddenly became easily vulnerable as to be fired from job.
One more important point is that soon after the detention of Nanuka Zhorzholiani’s brother experts and politicians started to speak about cracks in the governmental team. A leader of the Christian-Democrats Levan Vepkhvadze said during his visit in Eka Kvesitadze’s program, that one of the two governmental teams is going to rule the country together with Mikheil Saakashvili after 2013 too; the second team intends to continue their governance without Saakashvili.
The deputy chairperson of the parliament did not speak about the details but since I already had some doubts, I gave particular significance to those unclear definitions.
The point is that the State Constitution Commission really discusses two versions of the constitution. The authors of the first version are Avtandil Demetrashvili and Tengiz Sharmanashvili; the author of the second version is the commission member Levan Ramishvili. The first version relies on the “mixed” version and, so far, it looks like dough from which we can bake whatever we want. The process will take months because nobody knows what the president wants.
On May 21, 2008 the National Movement