Avtandil Beridze
Chairman of the Supreme Council of Adjara
In office
28 October 2012 – 28 November 2016
Preceded byMikheil Makharadze
Succeeded byDavit Gabaidze
Personal details
Born11 January 1955
Batumi, Adjara
Died12 November 2020
NationalityGeorgian
Political partyGeorgian Dream
Residence(s)Batumi, Adjara
OccupationPolitician
Websitewww.sca.ge

Avef Beridze (Georgian: ავთანდილ ბერიძე; 11 January 1955 – 12 November 2020) was a Georgian politician. He was a chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara from 28 October 2012 to 28 November 2016.

Beridze is a native of Batumi.[1] Formerly a member of the Republican Party of Georgia, he co-founded the public movement Serve to Georgia, in 2011, together with Murman Dumbadze, who had been dismissed from the Republican Party for his opposition to a planned Turkish-Georgian deal on rebuilding of an Ottoman-era mosque in Batumi. Both Dumbadze and Beridze then joined the Georgian Dream party founded by the tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili to challenge Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement in the October 2012 parliamentary election.[2] After the Georgian Dream's victory in both nationwide and regional legislative elections in his native Adjara, an autonomous entity on Georgia's Black Sea coast, Beridze was elected the chairman of the Supreme Council of Adjara, being the only candidate nominated for that position on 28 October 2012.[3] His tenure expired in November 2016. Beridze then served in the administration of Adjara's government and the directorate of environmental protection of Adjara.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Asset Declaration: Avef Beridze". Asset Declarations of Georgian Senior Officials. Civil Service Bureau. 27 December 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "აჭარის უმაღლესი საბჭოს თავმჯდომარედ ავთანდილ ბერიძე აირჩიეს" [Avef Beridze elected chairman of the Supreme Council of Adjara]. Tabula (in Georgian). 28 October 2013. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Avef Beridze elected as a chairman of Adjara Supreme Council". Armenian News - Tert.am. 28 October 2013. Archived from the original on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "ავთანდილ ბერიძის ხელფასი ახალ თანამდებობაზე 2 700 ლარი იქნება". Batumelebi (in Georgian). 20 October 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.


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