Constituent Assembly of Georgia

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Constituent Assembly of Georgia

საქართველოს დამფუძნებელი კრება

sak’art’velos damp’udznebeli kreba
Recognized as the First Convocation of the
Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR
Leadership
President Of Constituent Assembly of Georgia
Vice-Presidents of Constituent Assembly of Georgia

Samson Pirtskhalava

Simon Mdivani
Structure
Seats130
Current structure of the Parliament of Georgia
Political groups
Government (109)
  •   Social Democratic Party of Georgia (109)

Opposition (21)

Meeting place
National Palace
6 Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi

The Constituent Assembly of Georgia (

Soviet Russian military intervention
brought Georgia’s three-year independence to an end in March 1921.

Election

After the

Act of Independence of Georgia. According to this act, “the Democratic Republic of Georgia equally guarantees to every citizen within her limits political rights irrespective of nationality, creed, social rank or sex". The Council declared itself provisional Parliament in October 1918 and began preparations for a nationwide legislative elections - the only general elections in pre-Soviet Georgia.[1]

The Constituent Assembly was elected in the free and direct elections held from 14 to 17 February 1919, to ratify the Act of Independence and adopt the republic’s constitution. The elections were contested by 15 political parties and the results were a triumph for the

Dashnaktsutiun.[citation needed
]

The election saw fifteen women candidates stand for election, five of whom were elected to the 130 person assembly, all on the Social democratic ticket. The five elected assemblywomen were

Elisabeth Nakashidze-Bolkvadze, Kristine Sharashidze, Eleonora Ter-Parsegova-Makhviladze and Minadora Orjonikidze-Toroshelidze.[2][3]

Social-Federalist Party of Georgia
, vice-presidents.

On 21 March 1919 the Assembly elected Noe Zhordania head of government, and he formed a new cabinet.[4]

Legislation

During its two-year history, the Assembly adopted 126 laws, notably on citizenship, local elections, the country's defense, agriculture, legal system, political and administrative arrangements for ethnic minorities, a national system of public education, and some other laws and regulations on fiscal/monetary policy, the Georgian railways, trade and domestic production, etc.[5] In July 1919, the Assembly set up a Senate whose members were to be elected by the nation’s legislative body to "supervise the observance and defense of laws and to ensure strict adherence to them by all organizations, persons, and local government organs." The Senate was essentially an appellate court but also had the power to revoke any government decision contrary to law and to deal with complaints against courts.[6]

Preoccupied with uneasy foreign relations and domestic problems in the years of the

Revolutionary committee of Georgia – a provisional administration set up by the victorious Bolsheviks – declared the Assembly dissolved.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ISBN 0-19-924958-X
    .
  2. ^ Ugrekhelidze, Mariam (2018). "The five women who crafted the Georgian constitution". JAMnews. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Exhibition honours women of Georgia's first Constituent Assembly in 1919-1921". Agenda.ge. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  4. ^ (in Georgian) The Constituent Assembly, 1919-21. Parliament of Georgia.
  5. ^ David Losaberidze (1998), The Problem of Nationalism in Georgia, pp. 5-6. The NATO Research Fellowships Program.
  6. ^
    ISBN 90-04-13947-8
    .

External links
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