Georgian Dream to Support Bill by People's Power, Mamuka Mdinaradze Confirms
By Liza Mchedlidze
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Mamuka Mdinaradze, chairman of the Georgian Dream party said at the briefing held after the majority meeting in Parliament that the ruling party will support the law "On Transparency of Foreign Influences" initiated by People's Power deputies who formally left the party.
Mdinaradze told reporters that this draft law is not similar to the US and Russian laws, adding that everyone who says otherwise is 'lying'.
"On behalf of the Georgian Dream faction, I can say that we have agreed on the principles and will support the bill, of course, the details will continue to be discussed. If we are talking about the principles, we must not forget that there were a thousand speculations in relation to different countries, including the legislation of the occupier country, and I can say that whoever says that this is analogous to Russian law, they are simply lying.
It is not similar to the American legislation either, due to the fact that in both cases there are many restrictions, and if someone promises to bring an analogy to these restrictions in the draft presented by the "People's Power", they will not be able to do so, because no restrictions on the People's Power have been written in the bill," said Mdinaradze.
According to him, there are restrictions in the Russian and American law, but there are no such restrictions in the People Power bill.
"There are different restrictions in Russia, there are other restrictions in the United States of America. There are very strict norms, common in both cases may be that there is criminal liability for non-fulfillment of certain obligations - people are simply arrested and so on, not to mention the right to audit entry.
Also, in the USA, for example, one of the points is that the Prosecutor General can reduce, or increase, or exempt or on the contrary limit the deadlines for submission of declarations, etc.
There is no similar or even similar limitation in the bill presented by the people's power," said Mdinaradze.
