Fights break out in Georgian parliament over ‘foreign agents’ bill

Fights broke out in the Georgian parliament on Thursday, 2 March, over a controversial "foreign agents" bill backed by the ruling party.
Critics have said the draft law, which would require organisations receiving more than 20 per cent of their funding from overseas to register as "foreign agents" or face fines, represents an authoritarian shift in the country.
Protesters disrupted Thursday's committee hearings and physical fights broke out between opposition lawmakers and those from the ruling Georgian Dream party, who have said they will support the bill.
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[@poot2468]

makes me so sad to see the state that საქართველო is going into. how can we move forward as a society, being able to address the REAL issues if there cant even be a civilized conversation in PARLIAMENT . ღმერთო გვიშველე!

[@rutos7]

No russian laws in Georgia

[@muhammedrahman7013]

Yeh only American laws allowed!

[@mersifullwolf4054]

@@muhammedrahman7013 no, only democratic ones allowed!

[@mersifullwolf4054]

@@muhammedrahman7013 every American is much better than anything Russian 🤣😂🤣😂

[@ilikecheese7598]

And we’re all so uniyrr

[@Grimhurst]

This is traditional Georgian dance ...

[@anyatranter5588]

Load of grandads behaving badly

[@glasfish]

Surely an anti corruption law is good thing. Why would you want a foreign country (Russia, USA, China or any other country) interfering and influencing your government and vital infrastructure?

[@muhammedrahman7013]

The three countries you mentioned all have foreign agent laws, as do most Sovereign Nation's!

[@happydays4302]

Yes other countries have it. The concern was it was modeled on the Russian one which Russia has used to clamp down on dissident. Since neither China nor Russia are democratic, many Gerogians were concerned this bill would represent a turn to a more authoritarian regime and reduce their chances of joining the EU.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Ridiculous behaviour

[@secondhorizon]

corrupt money laundering politicians

[@Orto-jj2di]

Why else you think that movement doesn't have lot of support? Their behaviour and stubborn idiocities are just irritating

[@anyatranter5588]

Are they playing rugby in parliament

[@teslaandhumanity7383]

Where are the woman ?

[@georgianbroadcaster4700]

In the kitchen.

[@georgianbroadcaster4700]

Liberal women started it all. Then they let thr men scuffle! Here's the link:kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKPLaXqXq8mifrc

[@hanawolfgang]

Transphobic, they are womans

[@albertjose8879]

third world country

[@georgianbroadcaster4700]

@@albertjose8879 first and second ones are worse.

[@patriciasimpson7020]

Really the the people dragging around the people who want to fight each other were making things worse by playing peacekeeper. All it did was prolong the altercation. Would should of happened was guiding or instructing the people who want fight to go elsewhere, so really someone should of raised the offer of, 'let's take it outside' as the saying goes!😤+👊=😵=🤕,OR , 😡+🤜😟=😵‍💫=💀 Seriously though, this was absolutely disgraceful! Did done of them care the cameras were there and how bad it will look to the leaders of other countries? I think they just honestly just did not give a f**k!

[@muhammedrahman7013]

America has a foreign agent bill. But Georgia No way you can have one!

[@blotski]

Not exactly the same. The foreign agents law in the USA requires the person or agency to register themselves if they are working on behalf of a foreign government. The Russian law is used by the government to label anybody as a foreign agent if they receive any funding from abroad. The ironic thing is that the Georgian state itself receives huge funding from the EU and individual politicians receive vast amounts of money from Russia. I very much doubt if they would be thinking of labelling themselves as foreign agents though. It's designed to get at the opposition.

[@boosterhuiz2779]

Democracy at work

[@aliyevoqtay284]

ПОКА ДЬЯВОЛ РОССИЯ НЕ РАЗРУШИТСЯ ТАК БУДЕТ ВСЕ НАМИ. РУКИ ПРОЧЬ ОТ КАВКАЗА !!!!!!!

[@lordlex6315]

Central-asian aziks out of the Caucus and back to central-asia👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻

[@christopher9727]

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