The Attempts to Develop the Parliamentary Code of Ethics in Georgia

Abstract

The abstract analyzes the attempts and experience to develop the Parliamentary Code of Ethics inGeorgiain 2004-2020. The official documents around the research issue, reports of local and international organizations, and documents of ethical rules of conduct developed in the Georgian legislature and other normative acts regulating the activities of parliamentarians are examined by qualitative content analysis method. The in-depth interviews with politicians who were directly involved in drafting the Parliamentary Code of Ethics were also conducted within the survey.

The initiative to develop a parliamentary code of ethics comes from Western democracies, where they try to develop and implement codes of ethics at all branches and levels of government. Codes of ethics promote understanding of responsibility and establishing conscientious approaches in the implementation of professional activities.

The study of attempts to develop a parliamentary code of ethics in Georgia has shown that there is no real political will to establish moral-ethical principles in the governing process, and the document of rules of conduct is of a formal nature.