Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia

Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia

საქართველოს რესპუბლიკის უზენაესი საბჭო
(Georgian)
Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia ; საქართველოს რესპუბლიკის უზენაესი საბჭო ; (Georgian)
Georgian SSR (1990–1991); Georgia (1991–1992)
	Coat of arms of the Republic of Georgia
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Established	14 November 1990
Disbanded	6 January 1992
Preceded by	Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR
Succeeded by	Military Council
Leadership
Chairman	Akaki Asatiani (last)
Structure
Political groups	Government (155) Round Table (155); Opposition (91) Communist Party (64); People's Front (12); Democratic Georgia (4); Rustaveli Society (1); LERB (1); Independents (9); Vacant (4) Vacant seats (4);
Elections
Last election	28 October and 11 November 1990
Meeting place
	Supreme Council building, Tbilisi, Georgia

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს რესპუბლიკის უზენაესი საბჭო, romanized: sakartvelos resp'ublik'is uzenaesi sabch'o) was the highest unicameral legislative body in Georgia elected in the first democratic, multiparty elections in the Caucasus on October 28, 1990, while the country was still part of the Soviet Union. The Council presided over the declaration of Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union in April 1991. The legislature split into rivaling factions and became defunct after a violent coup d'état ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January 1992. A pro-Gamsakhurdia faction managed to convene for a few times in exile and again in Georgia during Gamsakhurdia's failed attempt to regain power later in 1993. The Supreme Council was succeeded – after a brief parliamentary vacuum filled by the rule of the post-coup Military Council and then the State Council – by the Parliament of Georgia elected in October 1992.

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia was preceded by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (July 1938 – November 1990), which in its turn was a successor of the Congress of Soviets of Georgia (February 1922 – July 1938).