Politics of Georgia (country)

Politics in Georgia play out within a semi-presidential representative democratic republic with a multi-party system, and with the President as the head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of the Georgian Government. The President of the Republic and the government wield executive power. Legislative power is vested both in the government and in the Parliament. After the Rose Revolution of 2003, the National Movement - Democrats dominated the party system.Georgia became a democratic republic following the first multiparty, democratic parliamentary elections of October 28, 1990. The Georgian state is highly centralized, except for the autonomous regions of Abkhazia and Adjara and the former autonomous region of South Ossetia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which had autonomy within the Georgian SSR during Soviet rule, each unilaterally seceded from Georgia in the 1990s. While as of 2016^[update] the Georgian government recognizes Abkhazia as autonomous within Georgia, it does not recognize South Ossetia as having any special status.