All parties apart the majority disclose their candidate trusts for GPB board

The United National Movement has named Ninia Kakabadze and Ketevan Mskhiladze as the candidates for the Board of Trustees of Georgian Public Broadcaster.  

Ninia Kakabadze is a film critic and doctoral student at Ilia State University. Since 2011 she has been an invited author of the TV show "Thoughts of the week at TV Maestro and has worked at internet television ArtArea since 2012.  

As for the second candidate, Ketevan Mskhiladze is an English language editor at Tabula magazine (English) and a founder of the Media Development Fund. Also, has been working as a head of the monitoring group of the GPB.  

"They have been remarkable for their devotion to the principality and impartiality, UNM explained  the decision of parliamentary minority regarding the candidates for GPB board of trustees.  

Kakabadze and Mskhiladze were named by the UNM out of those 27 candidates who were chosen by the Trustees Selection Commission through considering the broadcasting conceptions and interviewing the applicants.  

Also, The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara has also named its candidate, Geno Geladze.  

As for the Ombudsman, he made his choice in favor of Marina Muskhelishvili and Lela Gaprindashvili.  

Professor Marina Muskhelishvili is a director of NGO Society Research Center. She also has been an invited researcher to the Fulbright program of Washington University and serves as a consultant to the Director General of GPB.  

Lela Gaprindashhvili however, is an associated professor at Tbilisi State University and a member of the advisory board of the Womens Fund in Georgia.  

The parliamentary majority and minority have 3 quotas each. However, the UNM used just two of them and the decision of the majority is not known yet.  

In total nine trustees have to be chosen for the board. Two out of them will be named by the Ombudsman, three by the parliamentary majority, three by the one-fourth of the MPs left behind the parliamentary majority, and one by the Supreme Court of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara.  

The amendments to the Law on Broadcasting, upon which the board of the GPB is being formed, now were approved by the Georgian Parliament after a three month long discussion in May, 2013. The amendments initiated by the Georgian Dream coalition and created by the civil society and media organizations envisage a new rule of completion for the Board of Trustees of GPB, transformation of the Adjara Television to the public broadcaster, and ensuring more financial transparency of the TV broadcasters.