on the legal monopoly provided to Georgian Water & Power. He was critical of the controversial Namakhvani HPP project, a hydroelectric power plant that would have been built by a Turkish company in Imereti despite opposition by environmental groups. He argued that the contract between the government and the energy company would have required public subsidies and made electricity more expensive in the next 15 years, though he opposed calls to cancel the contract, instead arguing against the negotiation of similar deals in the future. Rakviashvili supports the abolition of the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission, the public board tasked with regulating utility tariffs. Georgian-Abkhazian conflict In January 2023, Rakviashvili presented in a blog post his vision on the settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, in which he outlined a three-step plan to reuniting Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia. His first step is the recognition of "Georgia's mistakes" throughout the conflict, including investigations into potential war crimes by Georgian forces during the 1992–1993 war, recognizing the 1998 war as a mistake, and walking back on Georgia's embargo on the region. He also supports the cancellation of IDPs' refugee status, which he calls a "source of corruption", instead favoring the privatization of land titles in Abkhazia to IDPs with the right to sell those titles. Finally, he has called for the partial legalization of trade with Abkhazia, starting with cigarettes, tangerines, and computers. References Living people 1982 births Members of the Parliament of Georgia Libertarians from Georgia (country) 21st-century politicians from Georgia (country) New Political Center — Girchi politicians People from Tbilisi