Tengiz Sigua
| Tengiz Sigua თენგიზ სიგუა |
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| 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia | |
| In office 8 November 1992 – 5 August 1993 (acting from 6 January 1992) |
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| President | Eduard Shevardnadze |
| Preceded by | Besarion Gugushvili |
| Succeeded by | Otar Patsatsia |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Georgia | |
| In office 15 November 1990 – 18 August 1991 |
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| President | Zviad Gamsakhurdia |
| Preceded by | Nodar Chitanava |
| Succeeded by | Murman Omanidze (acting); Besarion Gugushvili |
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| Born | 9 November 1934 Lentekhi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
Tengiz Sigua (born 9 November 1934) is a Georgian politician and former Prime Minister of the country.[1]
Sigua was an engineer by profession[1] and entered politics on the eve of the Soviet Union’s collapse. In 1990 he led an expert group of the bloc "Round Table-Free Georgia". Following the first multiparty elections in Georgia, he was elected Chair of the Ministers’ Council of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic on 14 November 1990.[1]
He was the prime minister in Zviad Gamsakhurdia’s government from 15 November 1990 to 18 August 1991. However, he resigned in August 1991 after disagreements with the president.[1] Along with the National Guard leader Tengiz Kitovani and the paramilitary leader Jaba Ioseliani, he became a leader of the uneasy opposition which launched a violent coup against the President in December 1991-January 1992. After Gamsakhurdia’s fall, he became Prime Minister in the Georgian interim government (Military Council, later transformed into the State Council) which was joined by Eduard Shevardnadze) on 6 January 1992.[1] He was reappointed Prime Minister on 8 November 1992 by the newly elected Parliament.
He resigned on 6 August 1993 after the Parliament rejected the budget submitted by the government.[2] He remained as an MP, led the National Liberation Front opposition party and backed a military solution of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict.
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| Preceded by | Prime Minister of Georgia 1992–1993 |
Succeeded by Eduard Shevardnadze |
