The Committee on Legal Affairs of the Georgian Parliament supported the bill on foreign agents in the second reading.
The Committee on Legal Affairs has begun to consider the bill in the morning on Monday. A sharp debate took place between the representatives of the ruling party “Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia” and the opposition.
The chairman of the Law Committee Henri Okhanashvili, who was conducted by the meeting, had to remove 14 deputies of the opposition from the hall for violating the regulations of the parliament. He also deleted several representatives of non -governmental organizations, which were also present at the meeting. The head of the committee interrupted and turned off the microphones to representatives of the civil sector, preventing them from expressing their position and saying that they violate the regulations and do not ask questions within the framework provided for by the second reading.
In the case of the adoption of a bill in three readings, non -governmental organizations and the media that have foreign financing is more than 20% of the annual income, will have to be registered. as “conducting interests of foreign power of the organization.”