President to veto foreign agents bill if approved


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Front News Georgia
Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili on Tuesday said she would veto a bill on the foreign influence proposed by former members of the ruling Georgian Dream party if it is approved by the legislative body.
In her speech at the annual political forum for gender equality, Zourabichvili stressed the bill by the People’s Power political movement, which envisages registration of non-commercial legal entities and media outlets as agents of foreign influence if they obtain more than 20 percent of their incomes from abroad, “distances Georgia from Europe”.
The president has refrained from “going into details of the bill”, saying “I am strongly against it, as the bill is meant to distance the country from Europe”.
The bill by the former members of the GD who still remain in the parliamentary majority and openly criticize the EU and the United States, is backed by the members of the ruling party amid large -scale international criticism ahead of the bloc’s decision whether or not to grant Georgia its membership candidate status later this year.
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