thus qualifying Rakviashvili. Georgian Dream MP Nino Tsilosani sought to pass electoral reform that would have mandated the replacement of an MP with one of the same gender, though the legislation has not yet passed. In Parliament, Rakviashvili is a member of the Financial and Budgetary Committee, as well as the Temporary Commission for the Restoration of Georgia's Territorial Integrity. He is also a member of the Georgian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. An avowed fiscal libertarian, he has proposed the creation of a special investigative commission to study the activities of the National Bank of Georgia, though failing to receive enough votes to establish it. He has advocated electoral reform that would favor small political parties, including abolishing the existing 5% threshold for parties to win parliamentary seats, as well as expanding the electronic voting system. Along with other Girchi MPs, he has set himself in opposition to both Georgian Dream and the United National Movement, criticizing GD's adoption of increased sentencing guidelines for administrative code violations and UNM's refusal to take part in standard parliamentary procedures. Rakviashvili was one of the MPs to attend the inaugural reception for President Salome Zourabichvili's National Accord Process in December 2021. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Rakviashvili criticized Ukraine's National Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov for suggesting that Georgia should launch military campaigns in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He called the proposal "morally unacceptable". Political views Economic views Sandro Rakviashvili is a follower of the Austrian school of economics. As such, he has called the abolition of the National Bank of Georgia his "main political goal", calling the institution a "tool to subsidize banks and secretly tax the public." He has been critical of the NBG's claims that national inflation was linked to a tightening of the monetary supply and supports the legalization of a multi-currency regime based on free market principles. Rakviashvili has called on the Georgian Government to lower taxes several times and has suggested the abolition of dozens of government agencies to pay for assistance programs created during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is opposed to the constitutional ban on the sale of agricultural land to foreign citizens and has called for the abolition of legally-recognized intellectual property. Environment and utilities Rakviashvili supports free market principles in the supply of electricity and other utilities. He has blamed regular cuts in water supplies to residential districts across the country