Politics of Georgia (country)

Politics of Georgia
Polity type	Parliamentary republic
Constitution	Constitution of Georgia
Legislative branch
Name	Parliament of Georgia
Type	Unicameral
Meeting place	Tbilisi
Presiding officer	Shalva Papuashvili, Chairman of Parliament
Executive branch
Head of State
Title	President of Georgia
Currently	Salome Zourabichvili
Appointer	Electoral College
Head of Government
Title	Prime Minister of Georgia
Currently	Irakli Kobakhidze
Appointer	Parliament of Georgia
Cabinet
Name	Government of Georgia
Current cabinet	Kobakhidze I
Deputy leader	Tea Tsulukiani Levan Davitashvili
Appointer	Prime Minister of Georgia
Headquarters	State Chancellery
Ministries	12
Judicial branch
Name	Judiciary of Georgia
Courts	Courts of Georgia
Constitutional Court
Chief judge	Merab Turava
Seat	Batumi
Supreme Court
Chief judge	Nino Kadagidze
Seat	Tbilisi, Kutaisi

Politics in Georgia involve a parliamentary representative democratic republic with a multi-party system. The President of Georgia is the ceremonial head of state and the Prime Minister of Georgia is the head of government. The Prime Minister and the Government wield executive power. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and the unicameral Parliament of Georgia.

The Georgian state is highly centralized, except for the autonomous regions of Abkhazia and Adjara and the former autonomous region of South Ossetia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which had autonomy within the Georgian SSR during Soviet rule, unilaterally seceded from Georgia in the 1990s. While, as of 2016^[update], the Georgian government recognizes Abkhazia as autonomous within Georgia, it does not recognize South Ossetia as having any special status.^[1]