1919_Abkhazian_People's_Council_election

1919 Abkhazian People's Council election

1919 Abkhazian People's Council election

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Elections to the People's Council were held in Abkhazia on 13 February 1919, alongside parliamentary elections in Georgia.[1]

Results

The Social Democrats won 27 of the 40 seats; 11 members of the party were Abkhazians and 11 Georgians, with the remaining five having other ethnicities.[1] Seats were also held by social federalists, an Abkhaz independent socialist group, Socialist Revolutionaries, people's democrats and colonists.[2]

Of the 40 members, 18 were Abkhazian, 16 Georgian and six from other ethnic groups.[1]

Aftermath

Following its election, the Council split along ethnic lines, with Abkhaz members of the Social Democratic Party joining the independent socialists to form an Abkhaz opposition.[2] Despite the split, the Council voted in favour of Abkhazia being an autonomous region of Georgia.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Zurab Paparskiri (2008) "Abkhazia and the Abkhazians in the common Georgian ethno-cultural political and state exspanse, Part II", The Caucasus & Globalisation, Vol 2, Issue 4, pp95–107
  2. [2]
    Arsène Saparov (2014) From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh, Routledge, p46
  3. [3]
    Mariam Goshadze (2008) Inventing the self: Instrumentalisation of history in Abkhazian-Georgian conflict, p51
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