Tiflisi – The spokesman for the Georgia Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, said On June 4, that the ruling Georgian dream party of the South Caucasus Nation initiated a draft law “on family values and the protection of minors” as well as changes to 18 laws that would restrict the LGBT rights.
According to Papuashvili, the government party has enough votes to support the proposal.
The legislation would prohibit transgender operations that adoption of children through same-sex couples, which indicates gender that is different in male or female in official documents, and the organization of public events that spread same-sex relationships.
The draft law will be discussed shortly in the first reading and adds that the second and third -party readings of legislation are discussed in autumn, said Papuashvili.
Papuashvili also said that May 17, which is currently marked as a family Values Day, will soon be announced as a state holiday and is added as such to the country's Law.
Papuashvili's statement came a day after signing a controversial law on “foreign agents” under protests by opposition and pro-EU activists and warnings from the United States and the European Union, in which the step endangered the path of Georgia to integrate into the European Union.
The law, which was widely used to be modeled on a similar Russian law, which was used by the Kremlin to suppress contradiction and the upper democratic opposition, requires civil society and media organizations that receive more than 20 percent of its funds from foreign sources to supervision, which could include sanctions for sustainable crimes.
Papuashvili said on June 3 that the Ministry of Justice would develop the instruments for the implementation of the “foreign agent” setting in 60 days, according to which all NGOs and media groups who receive financial support from abroad will be obliged to register and report their finances for 2023.
“And then it becomes clear what some of the foreign finances are spent on, and we will learn that it is sometimes spent on radicalism for some organizations that have recently been involved in terror and threats. Unfortunately, foreign finances are connected to such organizations these days,” said Papuashvili.
