Shalva Natelashvili

Shalva Natelashvili (Georgian შალვა ნათელაშვილი; born February 17, 1958 in Pasanauri at Dusheti, Mtskheta - Mtianeti, Georgia) is a Georgian politician and lawyer. Natelashvili is chairman of the Georgian Labour Party.

Life

1981, he completed a degree in law at the Tbilisi State University. He then worked as a prosecutor and chief prosecutor. In 1989, he completed a postgraduate course at the Diplomatic Academy of the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow, became head of the foreign department of the Georgian Prosecutor's Office.

He was a member of the CPSU and a full-time party secretary. 1992 and 1995 he was a member of the Georgian parliament, was a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, worked on the design of the Georgian Constitution. In 1995 he founded the Georgian Labor Party, became its chairman. In the parliamentary elections of 1999 his party fails with 6.82% of votes at the seven- percent threshold. In the 2004 election, he again failed to move into the Parliament.

During the Rose Revolution in November 2003, he opposed the uprising. 2004 exacerbated the Natelashvili fundamentally oppositional course with anti-Semitic stereotypes, the people called for civil disobedience against the government. He warned of an alleged threat of Georgia by American, Jewish and Armenian lobbies who wanted to take the country culture, religion, faith and education. Many party members left the party then.

Also in 2007, met Natelashvili Martin Sonneborn, head of the small German party The PARTY, as part of a satirical program, which, however, he did not recognize as satire. Natelashvili concluded with the satirical German party The party an agreement that what was being reported in the Georgian television.

In November 2007, the Georgian Prosecutor's Office announced that would be determined against Natelashvili suspicion of espionage in favor of Russia. It would be available recordings of relevant conversations with Russian diplomats. Shalva Natelashvili should then have applied for asylum in the United States of America to the American ambassador.

In the early presidential elections in January 2008, he ran as the candidate of the Workers' Party and reached 13 % of the vote.

Natelashvili is married to Bela Alania and has two children.