The Parliament elected the new Prosecutor General of Georgia, Giorgi Gabitashvili, in an extraordinary parliamentary session [with 80 votes in favor and zero votes against] for a period of 6 years.

Before the voting, Gabitashvili was heard in the Legal Issues Committee of the Parliament.

Gabitashvili, 42, has been serving as the deputy Prosecutor-General since June 2013. Before that, he worked as the Head of the Investigation Office of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia. In 2009, he started working as the Head of the Unit for the Supervision over the Investigations launched within the Bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at Shida Kartli and Mtskheta-Mtianeti Regional Prosecutor’s Office.