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📍 The chairman of the political group "European Socialists" of the Parliament of Georgia, Fridon Injia, focused on the legal committee session of the Parliament by relating to the legal proposals initiated by "People's Power" and talked about its main essence.

🔶 "Colleagues, I am once again convinced that the first draft introduced in the parliament is a semi-law, and I want to explain why I think that the first draft is a semi-law.

🔶 First of all, I would like to draw attention to transparency. Why do we want transparency?

🔶 We learned that the non-governmental sector is financed by Europe, Asia or the United States of America.

🔶 According to the first draft, attention is focused on the transparency of the organization's activities, but where are the state interests here?!

🔶 Transparency is understandable, but it must lead to some result, the interests of the state must be taken into account, or the issue of prevention of harmful actions of the state must be determined.

🔶 That is why this draft law is a semi-law and it needs to be continued.

🔶 A non-governmental organization is created, which calls for the resignation of the government. Create a technical government. There are a number of issues here.

🔶 Non-governmental organizations have created political structures, like political parties.

🔶 All laws should be adopted based on state interests.

🔶 Regarding the term - agent, Fridon Injia noted that this term is established in the world and among them, in Georgia and in various structures, and the deputy does not see anything wrong with it.

🔶 Moreover, the chairman of the political group thinks that they may be proud of such a status even more, while those who perceive the term - agent in a negative context, their activity is the heavy form of agency that they fear.

🔶 According to the deputy, based on the political events of the last few days, many "interesting" things have been revealed and attention should be paid to this.

🔶 At the meeting of the legal issues committee of the Parliament, two different draft laws initiated by "People's Power" were discussed in the first reading.

🔶 Namely: "On Registration of Foreign Agents" and "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of Georgia" in the first reading and the draft law "On Transparency of Foreign Influence", also in the first reading.

📍 Chairman of the political group "European Socialists" of the Parliament of Georgia, Fridon Injia, at the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs, where the draft laws initiated by "People's Power" were discussed, asked questions to the rapporteur of the project, MP Guram Macharashvili.

🔴 Two different draft laws initiated by "People's Power" were discussed in the first reading at the session of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliament. In particular: "On Registration of Foreign Agents" and "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of Georgia" in the first reading and the draft law "On Transparency of Foreign Influence", also in the first reading.

🔴 "Two draft laws have been introduced, one is the so-called Russian law, which is very liberal, does not give anything and is a half-law, and I agree with the statement of my colleagues - "No Russian law!

🔴 I think that this law should be stricter in Georgia today.

🔴 As for the United States of America, such a big country as the United States of America, with its Central Intelligence Service and Central Bureau of Investigation and systems, it has adopted this law since 1938, and this law is working.

🔴 This law operates based on the interests of the country, the United States of America.

🔴 We are a small country, maybe our country does not need such a law, if it is needed in order to increase the degree of independence.

🔴 Today we are talking about the Constitution and Article 78 of the Constitution, what do you think about the record of the country's integration into European structures, is this integration or not, if we adopt European or American law?! Or will we adopt a law whose content and spirit will be European or American?!" Fridon Injia said at the session.