National Democrats of Georgia

This article is about the historical party. For the modern party, see National Democratic Party (Georgia).

Georgian National Democratic Party საქართველოს ეროვნულ-დემოკრატიული პარტია
Leader	Spiridon Kedia
Founded	1917 (1917)
Dissolved	1923 (1923)
Ideology	Georgian nationalism
Political position	Centre-right
Constituent Assembly of Georgia	8 / 130
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The Georgian National Democratic Party (Georgian: საქართველოს ეროვნულ-დემოკრატიული პარტია, romanized: sakartvelos erovnul-demok'rat'iuli p'art'ia) was a centre-right Georgian nationalist party, between 1917 and 1923. In the 1919 Georgian parliamentary election, the party received 6.08% of the vote, garnering 8 of the 130 seats.

Program

The party represented the interests of the nobility, bourgeoisie, intelligentsia, clergy and military circles. The National Democratic Party demanded the abolition of private ownership of land and criticized the land reform of the Social Democratic government. They also opposed state intervention in the market economy. The National Democrats opposed the parallel existence of two structures of the armed forces, the Army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and the People's Guard, and demanded their unification. They also had a different attitude towards the Georgian Orthodox Church.

References

• First Universal Democratic Elections in Independent Georgia (Report). International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). 27 February 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
• Lortkipanidze, Mariam; Japaridze, Otar; Muskhelishvili, David; Metreveli, Roin (2012). History of Georgia in four volumes, vol. IV - History of Georgia from the XIXth century to the XXth century. Tbilisi: National Academy of Sciences of Georgia. ISBN 978-9941-35-132-7.
• Gotsiridze, Ketevan (2017). "An attempt to form Civic nationalism in the Democratic Republic of Georgia of 1918-1921. Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University.