Irakli Chikovani

Irakli Chikovani
ირაკლი ჩიქოვანი
Chikovani in 2024
Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 February 2024 Serving with Thea Tsulukiani (2024–2024) Vakhtang Gomelauri (2024–2025) Mamuka Mdinaradze (2026– present) Maka Botchorishvili(2026– present)
Prime Minister	Irakli Kobakhidze
Preceded by	Levan Davitashvili
Minister of Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 February 2024
Prime Minister	Irakli Kobakhidze
Preceded by	Juansher Burchuladze
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia
In office 16 November 2023 – 8 February 2024
Speaker	Shalva Papuashvili
Member of the Parliament of Georgia
In office 11 December 2020 – 20 February 2024
In office 21 October 2012 – 18 November 2016
Personal details
Born	(1980-08-28) 28 August 1980 (age 46) Zugdidi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia)
Citizenship	Georgia
Party	Georgian Dream
Spouse	Diana Zhgenti
Children	3
Education	Tbilisi State University

Irakli Chikovani (Georgian: ირაკლი ჩიქოვანი; born 28 August 1980) is a Georgian politician who has served as the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence of Georgia since February 8, 2024. A member of the Georgian Dream party, he was previously a Member of Parliament from 2020 to 2024 and 2012 to 2016.

Biography

Chikovani joined politics in 2012, as a member of former Deputy Prime Minister Irakli Alasania's Free Democrats party, which was initially a part of the Georgian Dream coalition. After the coalition was disbanded, Chikovani participated in the Free Democrats 2016 election campaign, in which the party failed to obtain any seats. In 2020, Chikovani rejoined Georgian Dream and ran for MP in the Zugdidi constituency in that year's election, he won the seat with 93,88% of the vote. On February 8, 2024, Chikovani joined Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's government as the Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

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