Representatives of the parliamentary opposition respond to the decision of the Georgian Dream to reintroduce the draft law on foreign agents.

“The Georgian Dream announced the final struggle against the declared interest of Georgia in becoming a member of the European Union and [against us-Georgian citizens] to be citizens of a democratic state. The announcement about the return of the Russian law, which has now been made by one of the leaders of the Georgian Dream, takes us back to the past. In this context, the decisive phase of the struggle is [about] what kind of a state we will live in, and we will continue the unrelenting struggle for Georgian democracy and the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Georgia”, - said Teona Akubardia, Parliamentary faction Reforms Group.

“The Georgian Dream is losing, and like any evil power, it has decided to drag the whole country into its failure. This will not work. The Russian law was introduced in the first place in order to tie this country by chains to Russia, while you, we and all reasonable citizens of this country have very clearly made and stated our choice”, - added Ana Natsvlishvili, Lelo for Georgia.

The leader of parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdinaradze, announced today the reintroduction of the draft law on foreign agents, which the Georgian Dream had to withdraw last year after the on March 7 - 9 rallies against the bill.

As he explained, the content of the bill remains the same, the only change is in the title: the word “agent” has been removed and replaced with “Organization Carrying Out the Interests of a Foreign Power”.