The president of Georgia vetoed the “foreign factors” bill

reported by Mehr News Agency According to Rianousti News Agency, the Office of the President of Georgia announced this Saturday that he vetoed the “Foreign Factors” bill.

According to this news agency, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said in a statement that he vetoed the bill on “foreign factors” approved by the parliament. .

He had previously threatened to veto this bill if approved by the parliament of his country.

On Tuesday last week, the Parliament of Georgia passed the controversial bill called “Foreign Factors”, according to which non-governmental organizations in this country that receive more than 20% of their budget from abroad They must be registered as foreign brokers, approved.

The ruling party of Georgia, which holds the majority of the country’s parliament, had announced that this bill is necessary for the transparency of the activities of non-governmental organizations and to prevent the “influence of foreign agents”.

On the other hand, opponents and western countries consider this bill similar to a law in Russia that helped the government of this country to stop the activities of many non-governmental organizations whose budgets were partly or entirely funded from outside the borders of Russia. stop.

The approval of this law took place after weeks of intense and widespread protests in Georgia, which were accompanied by clashes between protesters and the police, as well as the arrest of some.

Protests in which tens of thousands of people came to the streets and expressed their anger and dissatisfaction with this bill.

This decision, which was taken by the ruling party of Georgia called “Georgian Dream” despite the opposition of the president, opponents and civil society, was a controversial bill and led to a deep gap between the involved parties.

In recent weeks, the streets of Tbilisi witnessed massive and continuous demonstrations by protesters with the slogan “Yes to Europe, no to Russian law”.