The Parliament elected the Heads of the Personal Data Protection Service and the Special Investigation Service.

As a result of the voting, the MPs supported Lela Janashvili as the Head of the Personal Data Protection Service with 77 votes against 2, and Karlo Katsitadze as the Head of the Special Investigation Service with 76 votes against 1.

The bodies will replace from March the outspoken State Inspector’s Service which had combined the responsibilities of the two new offices, before Georgian Dream abolished the agency in a matter of a week in late December.

The freshly elected Special Investigation Service chief, has until now served as the Head of Department for Procedural Guidance over Investigation in the State Inspector at the Prosecutor’s Office.

Meanwhile, the ruling team’s pick for the Personal Data Protection Service, Lela Janashvili works as Associate Professor of Law at Tbilisi State University. She holds PhD in Law from The Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The Heads of the new Services were elected by the Parliament for a term of 6 years.