Speaker of Parliament of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili

Education

1998 - graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of International Law and International Relations, majoring in International Law;

1998-2002 - studied under a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Saarland (Germany); in 1999 he was awarded a Master of Laws degree, and in 2002 - a Doctor of Laws degree

Professional Experience

On December 29, 2021, Shalva Papuashvili was elected Speaker of the Parliament of the tenth convocation of Georgia;

On October 31, 2020, Shalva Papuashvili was elected a member of the tenth convocation of the Parliament of Georgia from the party list of the Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

On December 15, 2020, he was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture;

On March 31, 2021 - he was elected Chairman of the Committee on Education and Science;

He is a member of the faction Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

Since January 16, 2021 he is a member of the political council of the party Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

March 27, 2021 - party Public Relations Secretary;

2003-2007 - he was a law expert at the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ);

2007-2017 - he headed the various directions of the German International Cooperation (GIZ) Law Program in the South Caucasus;

2017-2020 - he was the head of the Georgian team of the law program;

Since 2012 - he has been giving lectures at various universities;

Shalva Papuashvili is an associate professor at Ilia State University

Publications

Collection of legal special cases on the general part of the Civil Code (co-author);

German-Georgian-German legal dictionary (co-author);

New grounds for admissibility of cassation in civil proceedings;

Development of law through judicial law;

Commitment of good faith management of the joint stock company's supervisory board

Languages

English, German and Russian

Former PM of Georgia; For Georgia chairman
Giorgi Gakharia
Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
Former President of Georgia
Giorgi Margvelashvili
Shalva Papuashvili: To this day, we have not seen any act of violence or any dignity-offending campaign condemned; failure to condemn is encouragement
Legislative amendments registered in Parliament, which provide for a ban on “LGBT marches and related colorful items”
Shalva Papuashvili: We expect only the right conclusions from the new US administration about what spoiled these relations - everything is easy to see, nothing needs to be explained or clarified
Shalva Papuashvili: We initiated new Rules of Procedures of the Parliament of Georgia - the number of interpellations of various accountable persons will double - and therefore, the Minister's Hour will lose its purpose
Shalva Papuashvili: While the British Labour Party government is sanctioning Georgian judges based solely on suspicions, as they themselves admit, the convicted and wanted Davit Kezerashvili is freely moving around London
"Transparency International - Georgia": The Western world has already sanctioned more than 200 representatives of "Georgian Dream," of whom the identities of 98 have been made public, while the rest are subject to anonymous visa restrictions
Parliament passes so-called "FARA" bill in final reading
Shalva Papuashvili: Yesterday, the Parliament building was once again fired upon with pyrotechnics—I expect embassies to condemn the attack on the building, especially since this attack took place during a protest organized by NGOs funded by them
Shalva Papuashvili on Marine Le Pen: Of course, I do not want to interfere in the internal affairs of France, but neither should France interfere in the internal affairs of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili: On March 31, the Georgian people voted not for a change of master or better slavery, but for independence - no one has the right to exchange our independence for new slavery, new vassalage
Shalva Papuashvili: As a result of violent actions, the parliament has suffered damage of approximately half a million lari - Wouldn't foreigners consider taking part of the funds meant for NGOs and use it to cover this damage?
Shalva Papuashvili: The opposition’s participation or non-participation in the local elections has no impact on the legitimacy of the elections. In fact, I believe it would be even better if extremist parties do not participate
Shalva Papuashvili: Who is funding Madam Salome's travels to the Baltic countries? This question must be asked because the answer will reveal proof of whose puppet she is
Shalva Papuashvili stated that everyone, especially young people, should watch the investigative commission to see "what kind of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili's regime was creating with the green light from abroad"
Amendments made to the rules related to the activities and powers of the Parliament’s temporary investigative commission - the commission will be able to raise the issue of initiating an investigation before the relevant body at any stage of its activities
Shalva Papuashvili: October will come and they will participate in the elections  - it would be better if extremist parties do not participate in the elections
Shalva Papuashvili: The EU Ambassador was “clearly involved” in the anti-government pre-election campaign - we remember his speeches, his accents. Sometimes he spoke to us with stories, sometimes with poems
Based on endorsement from Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker, President awards Orders of Honor to men's national handball team members
Michał Kobosko - we hope that your government eventually would either choose the European way, the democratic way or would resign seeing the number, the size and scale of the citizens' protests