Guram Gumba
Guram Gumba (born: 22 July 1956) is a historian and politician from Abkhazia. At its founding congress On 19 January 1991, he became the first (and last) Chairman of the Democratic Party of Abkhazia, Abkhazia's first post-Soviet political party. Gumba had received the idea to found the party along with writer Daur Zantaria and Russian poet Aleksandr Bardodym during a visit by the latter in 1990. The party was not revived following the 1992–1993 war with Georgia.[1]
In 2007, Gumba was elected to the 4th convocation of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia in constituency no. 14 (Duripsh), defeating Dmitri Ardzinba in the run-off with 1200 to 1126 votes.[2] In Parliament, he was elected Chairman of the Committee for Inter-Parliamentary and Foreign Affairs. Gumba did not stand for re-election in 2012.
References
- ^ Sharia, Vitali (30 October 2015). "«Демократическая Абхазия»: вчера, сегодня, завтра". Echo of the Caucasus. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ^ Kuchuberia, Anzhela (19 March 2007). "ЦИК Абхазии подвел предварительные итоги выборов в парламент". Caucasian Knot. Retrieved 2 February 2012.