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won a seat in
Parliament through the opposition coalition's electoral list. P&F was among the majority of opposition parties backing a months-long boycott of Parliament in protest of potential voter fraud, although it became a supporter of ending the boycott after a short-lived EU-facilitated agreement between Georgian Dream and opposition parties was reached, without the UNM-led coalition.
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and led by the United
National Movement, and Chocheli was placed on 18th place in the bloc's electoral list. Chocheli was nominated by the coalition as its candidate for the Mtskheta-Mtianeti Majoritarian District, running against 14 candidates, including incumbent Eka Beselia (Law and Justice party)
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Winning 33.8% in the first round, Tsezar
Chocheli boycotted his runoff against GD's Shalva Kereselidze after allegations of massive voter fraud surfaced and won only 7.8% in the second round. Among those speculations was a total result amounting to 101% of participating voters. Chocheli nonetheless
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claiming he was likely to switch to GD if elected. Unlike the 2016 race, Georgian Dream openly campaigned against
Chocheli and was accused of using administrative resources against him. Notably, the contract of the principal of the Public School of Ksani was not renewed by the Ministry of Education
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Tsezar
Chocheli's political career has been closely associated with Akhalgori, his hometown in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region that has been since 2008 under the control of the Russian-backed South Ossetia separatist republic. In 2002, he was elected as Chairman of the Akhalgori Municipal Assembly and
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holiday, a local annual religious celebration that involves brewery. Originally a small business using a few brewing pots, it grew to become one of the leading beer providers in
Georgia in the 1990s and became a limited company with Chocheli as the sole director in 1997. In 1999, a controversial
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Chocheli has accused Gia
Khukhashvili, an economic adviser to then-Prime Minister Ivanishvili, for being behind his legal challenges. In September 2013, he would be arrested a second time, this time along with former Deputy Economy Minister Davit Giorgadze, over a case related to the 2010
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Chocheli announced a 23 million-euro investment to launch a Georgian coffee brand in November 2013. In April 2016, Interplast and a Chinese investor signed a memorandum to open a cement factory in
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On 19 February 2008, Tsezar
Chocheli resigned his parliamentary seat and was appointed as Governor of Mtskheta-Mtianeti by President Saakashvili to replace Vasil Maghlapheridze, who had recently left office and joined the opposition. His term in office coincided with the
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factory in
Georgia from the state. At the time, many of his private holdings were managed through his brother Iago, while Tsezar Chocheli was considered to be one of Georgia's largest private employers and employed thousands of
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in February 2021, Chocheli visited him in prison, while he praised the service of former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia when the latter resigned, in contrast with other members of his party. Following the
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Shortly after graduating university in 1991, 23-year-old Tsezar Chocheli founded with relatives and friends the Lomisa brewery in his hometown of Akhalgori. The company's name was based on the
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company, receiving up to 5.4 million GEL in undeclared income. Though prosecutors sought his pre-trial detention, he was released from the Gldani prison after paying a 200,000 GEL bail.
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in December 2012 as part of a largest inquiry into an alleged attempt to bankrupt through predatory practices Cartu Bank, a lending organization belonging to
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and UNM's Irakli Beriashvili, as well as far-right activist Koka Morgoshia. During the race, he was elected by several opposition groups, such as the
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calling it "politically-motivated", and Chocheli denied all charges, claiming that the new authorities were launching a "war on business". The
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after it was discovered that his son worked on Chocheli's campaign. He became one of the largest campaign donors to UNM.
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in the parliamentary elections. After a failed run for Parliament as an independent in 2016, Chocheli co-founded the
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charges of illegal sources of income. The case was controversial, former Prime Minister and UNM Secretary General
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to diffuse patriotic programs, before being sold to Tamar Chergoleishvili, a journalist and wife of NSC Secretary
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in 1991, around the time of Georgia's independence declaration.
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displacement of thousands of ethnic Georgians across the region
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Tsezar Chocheli became the subject of an investigation by the
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