Zurabishvili is convinced that the law is anti-national and incompatible with the country’s constitution. The TV channel claims that if the Constitutional Court accepts the president’s request, her interests will be defended in court by young Eka Beselia, a PhD student at the Faculty of Law of the Caucasus University and chairwoman of the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Civil Integration of the Parliament of Georgia.
Beselia told the TV company that the president of the country intends to establish the consistency of the adopted law with the Georgian constitution, which contains an article obliging the constitutional bodies to take all measures to ensure the full integration of the country into the EU and NATO.
Beselia also claims that the lawsuit filed demands “suspending the application of the law until the constitutional court essentially resolves this dispute.”
The Foreign Influence Transparency Act was adopted by the Georgian parliament on May 14, despite street protests.
Zurabishvili vetoed the law, calling it “unconstitutional.” But Georgian parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili signed it into law on June 3 after the president refused to do so.
Let us recall that the West did not like the adoption of the law on foreign agents in Georgia. As a result, the United States and the EU announced a review of relations with the country.
