Head of Presidential Administration Quits Post
By Tea Mariamidze
Monday, April 22
Lasha Zhvania, Head of the Administration of Georgia’s first female President Salome Zurabishvili, has decided to step down.
Zhvania released the information himself, on his Facebook page, saying he will quit from May 1 and return back to his previous work at the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
“At the time when I assumed the office at the Presidency, Patriarch Ilia II satisfied the President’s request to assign me to the President’s administration, but did not release me from the Charity Foundation of the Patriarchate,” he explained.
The post also reads that from May 1 Zhvania will resume working as the General Manager of the Charity Foundation of the Patriarchate.
He thanked the president of Georgia for granting him such a great responsibility, wishing her success in her activities.
“I will leave the President’s administration and continue my work with my sweet and wise Patriarch…But like in the past, in the future also I will do my best for the head of my country,” Zhvania’s post reads.
He also mentioned that the most unpleasant process in the Presidential Administration during his work was the reduction of the staff from 140 to 60.
“It does not make any difference for me where I will serve my country from, but it is better to do it from the position where I have not exhausted my skills,” he added.
Lasha Zhvania was appointed as the Head of President’s Administration on December 18, 2018, after Zurabishvili assumed Presidency in November.
From 2010 to 2018 he headed the International Foundation for Science, Culture, and Spirituality of the Patriarch of All Georgia.
Before that, he served as the Minister of Economic Development of Georgia.
