Georgian Dream party names acting finance minister Mamuka Bakhtadze new prime minister
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The Georgian Dream ruling party has named acting Finance Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze, for the prime minister’s candidacy, after the resignation of Giorgi Kvirikashvili yesterday.
Georgia will be a powerful, European-style country,” Bakhtadze stated at a briefing shortly before.
He said that people have been and will be the main value of the Georgian Dream government.
Each initiative or effort will be for the better future of each Georgian citizen. To achieve this goal we [the government] should be unanimous and principled, focused on high quality,” he said.
Between 2005 and 2006 Bakhtadze,36, served as the project manager of the Georgian Railway.
In 2010-2012 he was the director general of Georgia’s International Energy Corporation.
- In 2013- 2017, before taking the finance minister’s post, he served as the director general of Georgian Railway.
Bakhtadze holds a doctoral degree in technical sciences and also a master’s degree in business administration from the INSEAD Business School in France.
The Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has announced that he quits his post due to the controversies on economic and other fundamental issues with the Georgian Dream ruling party and the party head Bidzina Ivanishvili. He stated that now the party leader should be given an opportunity to offer the team which he believes to cope with the current state challenges better.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili announced this morning that a major reshuffle will take place in the Cabinet of Ministers. Some ministries will be merged while several ministers will be replaced.
Speaking at the Constituency Meeting organised by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Croatia, Mamuka Bakhtadze presented his views on existing possibilities and challenging with regards to financial technologies.
Georgia’s Finance Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze is at the 51st Annual Meeting of Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
Deputy Parliament Speaker of Georgia Tamar Chugoshvili announced today that the parliamentary control onf the Georgian Dream government will increase under the new Prime Minister and reshuffled Cabinet of Ministers.
Mamuka Bakhtadze has seven days to form a new government and present it to the parliament. If the parliament approves Mamuka Bakhtadze and his choice of ministers and their action plan, the new government will set to work.
The Georgian Dream ruling party candidate for Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze announced at today’s briefing that the number of ministries will decrease from 14 to 11.
"Our first idea is to fully annul the tax arrears of the period before January 1, 2013”, PM designate Mamuka Bakhtadze said at the parliamentary majority meeting today. Bakhtadze presented the governmental program ‘Freedom, fast development, prosperity’ to MPs today.
Candidate for Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has presented his vision about the country’s economic development at an extraordinary parliamentary session on June 20.
David Zalkaliani as Foreign Minister, Giorgi Cherkezishvili as Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, and Nikoloz Gagua as Finance Minister are newcomers to the cabinet which took office immediately following the vote.