Incumbent Salome Zourabichvili since 16 December 2018
Office of the President of Georgia Head of State of Georgia
Residence
Orbeliani Palace
Appointer
Direct popular vote:
1991 to 2018
Electoral College:
2024 onward
Term length
Effective 1991:
five years
Effective 2004:
four years
Effective 2018:
six years
Effective 2024:
five years, renewable once
Constituting instrument
Constitution of Georgia
Inaugural holder
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Formation
14 April 1991 (33 years ago) (1991-04-14)
Deputy
Chairperson of the Parliament
Salary
13,000 GEL per month[1][2]
Website
Official website
Politics of Georgia
Constitution
Constitutional court
Human rights
LGBT rights
Executive
President
Salome Zourabichvili
Prime Minister
Irakli Kobakhidze
Legislature
Parliament
Chairperson: Shalva Papuashvili
Judiciary
Supreme Court
Constitutional Court
Local government
Administrative divisions
Regions (mkhare)
Municipalities
Election Administration
Recent elections
Parliamentary: 2016
2020
Presidential: 2013
2018
Local: 2017
2021
Political parties
Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Ilia Darchiashvili
Diplomatic missions of / in Georgia
Nationality law
Passport
Visa requirements
Visa policy
Georgia–European Union relations
Georgia–NATO relations
Georgia–Russia relations
Georgia–Ukraine relations
Related topics
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The president of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს პრეზიდენტი, romanized:sakartvelos p'rezident'i) is the ceremonial head of state of Georgia as well as the commander-in-chief of the Defense Forces. The constitution defines the presidential office as "the guarantor of the country's unity and national independence."[3]
The president is largely a figurehead as in many parliamentary democracies. Executive power is vested in the Government and the prime minister. The office was first introduced by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia on 14 April 1991, five days after Georgia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.[4] The president serves a five-year term.
The current president is Salome Zourabichvili. Because of Georgia's transition to a fully parliamentary system she is the last president to be elected directly by the citizens.
^"Georgia increases the president's salary". Democracy & Freedom Watch. 11 December 2013.
^Article 49, Section 1–3 of the Constitution of Georgia (country) (2018)
^(in Georgian and Russian) The Law of the Republic of Georgia on the Introduction of the Post of President of the Republic of Georgia Archived 20 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine. The Parliament of Georgia Archive. Accessed on 17 April 2011
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