Tamar Kordzaia

Tamar Kordzaia (Georgian: თამარ კორძაია; born in Sokhumi on 18 July 1977) is a Georgian civic activist and politician who has served as a Member of the Parliament of Georgia in 2013–2016 and since 2020. She is known for her affiliation with liberal values and has been rated as one of the legislature's most liberal members.

An IDP born in Abkhazia, she fled during the 1993 ethnic cleansing of Georgians in the region and joined the legal team of the Georgian Young Lawyers Association, an organization on behalf of which she defended journalistic rights during the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili. An outspoken critique of his government, she joined politics in 2013 when she was nominated by Georgian Dream to run for the Nadzaladevi Parliamentary District. Serving as a member of the ruling majority, she distinguished herself as an active MP pursuing liberal reforms, successfully sponsoring major amendments to the Liberty Charter in 2013 that banned Soviet and Nazi symbolism and the Anti-Discrimination Act of 2014.

In 2015, she joined the Republican Party and ran as an opposition candidate for the Mtatsminda Parliamentary District in the 2016 legislative elections, though losing to Salome Zourabichvili. Kordzaia returned to Parliament as a Republican in 2020, though she would accept her mandate only five months later after the European Union brokered an agreement between political parties that put an end to a post-electoral boycott by the opposition. She left the Republican Party in 2021, remaining as an independent MP.