Ex-Georgian Dream MP Goga Gulordava Elected Chair of Communications Commission

2026-01-29 - 09:23

On January 29, Goga Gulordava, a former Georgian Dream MP, was elected Chair of the Communications Commission (ComCom), Georgia’s state media regulator, for a three-year term. He was the sole candidate for the position and was unanimously approved by ComCom members in a secret ballot. He will thus assume leadership of the institution that has played a key role in enforcing parts of the recently enacted restrictive legislation targeting the media, particularly laws affecting radio and television broadcasters, introducing stricter content regulations and bans on foreign funding. Gulordava replaces Kakha Bekauri, who had headed the Commission for two terms since 2017 and is currently under sanctions of Lithuania and Ukraine. Bekauri was also named in a European Parliament resolution as part of what it described as Bidzina Ivanishvili’s “network of enablers, elite entourage, corrupt financial operatives, propagandists,” and the resolution called for EU sanctions against those individuals. Gulordava joined as a ComCom member in December 2025. He served as a Georgian Dream MP for the Western Georgian constituency of Tsalenjikha from 2016 to 2020 and earlier headed the Tsalenjikha Municipality Administration between 2013 and 2016. He is a lawyer by profession. According to ComCom, Gulordava previously worked for two years as a financial monitor and auditor at the pro-government TV Imedi. From 2020 to 2025, he served as an adviser to the General Director of the Georgian State Electrosystem and later as the agency’s Director of Internal Audit. Also Read: 10/10/2025 – Regulator Warns Broadcasters, Including Formula, Over ‘Funding from Foreign Power’ 04/07/2025 – Regulator Finds Violation in Channels Questioning GD Legitimacy, But Doesn’t Fine Them