Head of Georgian Opposition Election HQ to Work for Poroshenko
By Tea Mariamidze
Friday, December 7
The Head of the United Opposition election headquarters in Georgia during the presidential elections, Giorgi Vashadze, was invited by the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to work for his election headquarters for upcoming presidential elections this March.
Vashadze confirmed the information, adding he was offered to move to Ukraine but he prefers working from Tbilisi.
Giorgi Vashadze is a Georgian politician and a member of the Parliament of Georgia elected on a party list of the former ruling party United National Movement (UNM) in October 2012.
He was also a member of the United National Movement fraction, deputy chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, member of the Education, Science and Culture Committee, member of the Commission on Implementation of Quality and Internal Control Procedures of Audit, Financial and Economic, Legal and Organizational Activities of the State Audit Service.
The MP left the UNM on 5 May 2016, criticizing it for "closed style of governance by a narrow circle of leadership" and founded party New Georgia before the 2016 parliamentary elections.
As a Deputy Minister of Justice, Vashadze was in charge of the establishment of Public Service Hall. The concept was based on the principle of Everything in One Place. The project of Public Service Halls was recognized as the most successful Georgian reform of 2011 as over the past years, Georgia took the leading places in rankings of the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the NGO Transparency International (TI).
The MP was Poroshenko's advisor in 2017.
The presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for March 31, 2019, and the president is elected for a five-year term.
In addition, the country will also have parliamentary elections in autumn next year.
