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Original Title: Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said she will veto the country’s contentious foreign agent law after a month of public protests. Even though her veto can be overridden, she said she’d veto it as a “symbol” of wider displeasure
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili told DW on Wednesday that she still planned to veto the contentious “foreign influence” law that passed a third and final reading in parliament the previous day.
The EU has warned it might freeze the country’s accession process as a formal candidate member of the bloc, a status it was only granted recently, late last year.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze meanwhile recently said that the plans were “solely aimed at promoting transparency and accountability.”
The rhetoric she’s referring to are comments from Prime Minster Kobakhidze and other members of the Georgian Dream party, not least its chairman, Bidzina Ivanishvili, who Zourabichvili described as the “de facto ruler of Georgia.”
She noted a speech from Ivanishvili on April 29, at the height of the public protests as the law was being prepared, “which is accusing our western and European partners of everything and nothing — and making conspiracy theories,” as one of the more striking recent examples.
She ran in the 2018 presidential election campaign as an independent but had set up a liberal party advocating closer ties with Europe earlier in her political career in Georgia.
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