PM announces structural changes in government
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Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced changes planned for the cabinet as part of his plan to reduce administrative costs in the state bureaucracy.
The 14, currently existing ministries will be reduced to 11: 10 ministries and 1 state minister office.
The changes are as follows:
- The Ministry of Culture and Sport will be merged with the Ministry of Education and Science.
- The Ministry of Corrections will come under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice.
- The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons will be abolished, and integrated into the ministries of regional development and infrastructure, internal affairs and health.
- The Agency of Religion will be merged with the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality.
- The spatial development unit under the Ministry of Economy is going to be merged with the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure.
"I am sure that through these changes, we will start implementing the concept of small government which is in the interest of our people. Government spending is going to be diminished alongside the structural changes and step by step reach 3.9 percent of the GDP, which is the ceiling we are aiming for”, PM Bakhtadze said.
The head of the government is going to present parliament with its plan of structural changes today while as for the new faces in the cabinet, Bakhtadze says the consultations on this topic are over but has not made clear who exactly is going to join the new cabinet.
Candidate for Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has presented his vision about the country’s economic development at an extraordinary parliamentary session on June 20.
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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.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has introduced his ‘small government’ today, pledging to keep government expenditures under 3.9 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).
The candidate for education minister Mikheil Batiashvili told lawmakers today that he will work to bring the Georgian education ministry in line with European standards and almost all education programmes should be offered to foreign students.
The Ministry of Culture of Georgia will again become a separate body and it will be detached from the current Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Georgia, Deputy Head of Parliament’s Education Committee Nukri Kantaria says. Kantaria told IPN earlier today the decision to merge the ministries of education and culture back in 2018 under Mamuka Bakhtadze’s premiership was “a mistake.”
The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Georgia has again been divided into two government agencies - the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, as it was before former Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze merged the ministries in 2018.