Nikanor "Nika" Melia (Georgian: ნიკანორ „ნიკა" მელია; born 21 December 1979) [1] is a Georgian politician, former chairman of the United National Movement party and former member of Parliament of Georgia.

Dec 8, 2023 · At a briefing on Thursday evening, Nika Melia said the UNM had made ‘informal management and behind-the-scenes influences’ its political standard, and accused the party of being politically corrupt. He added that the party was in the habit of ‘persecuting dissent’ and ‘closing the door to democracy’. ‘So I’m going?

Dec 8, 2023 · Levan Khabeishvili defeated the incumbent, Nika Melia to become the new leader of the opposition UNM party in January 2023. The winner received 52.58% (21,656 votes), against Melia’s 40% (16,476 votes). The UNM held the election through an electronic voting system from January 28 to January 30.

Nov 27, 2023 · The United National Movement’s Chair, Levan Khabeishvili, has said that the party’s former leader, Nika Melia, is ‘not a member’ of the party anymore. In an interview with Formula on Sunday, Khabeishvili appeared to dodge …

Feb 23, 2021 · Nika Melia, who leads the opposition United National Movement, is accused of inciting violence in street protests in June 2019, and a court last week ordered his arrest for refusing to pay an...

Feb 3, 2025 · Nika Melia, the leader of the Coalition for Change, has since been released on bail after detention for an administrative offence, according to the Interfax News Agency.

Dec 8, 2023 · The oligarchy in this country wants to write the history of Georgia, but the history of Georgia will be written by the Georgian people,” said Nika Melia. Former UNM hed announces that he is founding a party, claiming that the new party will be founded in …

May 11, 2021 · Nika Melia, the leader of Georgia's main opposition party United National Movement, has been released from prison, paving the way to end the political crisis in the country.

Mar 11, 2024 · Nika Melia, the former chair of the United National Movement (UNM), Georgia’s largest opposition party, and Nika Gvaramia, the founder of opposition TV channel Mtavari Arkhi, have officially unveiled their new political party, Ahali (‘New’).

Sep 7, 2023 · Nika Melia was arrested for taking part in the protest and calling for control of the parliament building to be regained during a demonstration in Georgia on June 20-21, 2019, sparked by the fact that Sergei Gavrilov, Russian communist MP, addressed the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy session held in the Georgian Parliament from the ...