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Published on September 19, 2024 – 15:25 GMT+2•Updated 17:07
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In the run -up to the elections of October 26, the government of Georgia took another step away from Brussels and passed a draft law for “family values and protection of minors”, which explicitly discriminates.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, Chairman of the Governing Georgian Dream Party, said that a change in the law as a countermeasure against LGBTQ+ “Propaganda” is required.
“In two or three generations, it can have such harmful consequences,” he said, insisting that same -sex marriage is not permitted, and if this was the case, the effects on Georgian society could be of an order of magnitude “that no conqueror has been able to achieve no conqueror for centuries”.
At a plenary session, the controversial law said goodbye to 84 in favor and zero.
Opposition parties were not present, since many boycott the parliament since the notorious parliament has been accepted “Foreign agents” Law at the beginning of this year.
The anti-LGBTQ+ place consists of about a dozen articles that deal with marriage, adoption and medical procedures as well as the spread of information, meetings and demonstrations in order to collect the right to collect.
In addition, the government – the international day against homophobia, biphobia and transthobia – described the government as “purity of the family and respect for the parents”.
The opposition remains divided according to the new legislation and was careful not to alienate socially conservative voters. Some of his opponents do not expressly decipher the legislation as “undemocratic” and instead criticize them as “prematurely”.
“Classic Russian propaganda”
The legislation was heavily criticized by many in Georgia's civil society.
Human rights defenders argue that the government is trying to distract its supporters from real problems and to create another obstacle to European integration.
“This is a classic Russian propaganda in which the government invents and promises to solve and promise an unspeakable problem,” said Eka Chitanava, director of the Institute for Tolerance and Diversity. “In Georgia there are many social problems that create an unfavorable environment that also affects minors.”
“On the one hand, this law puts the LGBTQ+ community – the most marginalized group in the country – in an endangered position. On the other hand, it damages the state of human rights for all citizens.”
Civil society groups claim that the law issued in Russia, which resembles legislation, intervenes freedom of speech and at the same time legalizes censorship.
“Georgian Dream offered us what Russia has been working on for ten years,” said Khatia Ghoghoberidze, member of the Georgian Journalism Charter Council.
“Russia moved to this step by step,” Ghoghoberidze told Euronews. “The Georgian dream brought us a version that is present in Russia today, and Parliament has passed this law.
“I will say it directly: It's just a shame.”
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