Georgian president says ‘foreign influence’ law threatens path to EU | VOA News

Georgia’s parliament this week passed a so-called “foreign influence” bill. The government says the bill is needed to prevent foreign interference in its politics, but critics call it a Russian-style threat to stifle free speech.
The ruling Georgian Dream party approved the legislation despite warnings from Washington and Brussels that doing so might threaten Georgia’s partnership with the West.
In an interview with VOA, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, a political independent previously supported by the Georgian Dream party, characterized the law as a clear reversal of Georgia’s “Western path” that will jeopardize its bid to join the European Union.
Zourabichvili has vowed to veto the law, despite Georgian Dream having a veto-proof majority in parliament.
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[@katong1953]

What a load of bullcrap. The US has a similar law.

[@VOANews]

Georgia's president vetoes media law that provoked weeks of protests MORE: www.voanews.com/a/7617548.html

[@robertgouw396]

The USA has a "Foreign Agents Act" where USA citizens must register when they are working for the interests of a foreign government. Ron DeSantis's press secretary Christina Pushaw had to register when she was making payments to Mikheil Saakashvili the President of Georgia from 2004 - 2013 after that the USA installed him as Mayor Govenor of Odessa in Ukraine. Just in time for the "Odessa Massacre" and the Maidan Coup. It's no wonder that Georgia imprisoned its former president Mikheil Saakashvili and now would like a law to prevent the USA and EU from staging a Coup in Georgia. Which you can see is underway.

[@user-mi4hd7le4w]

Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA) - закон США, принятый в 1938 году, требующий, чтобы иностранные агенты в США, представляющие интересы иностранных держав в «политическом или квазиполитическом качестве», раскрывали свои отношения с иностранным правительством и информацию о соответствующей деятельности и финансах. Почему Америке можно, а Грузии нельзя?!!!

[@KvapuJanjalia]

When the country's president herself is a foreign agent, this is a very important law.

[@ade008]

Tres bien, Madame. Vive la France et les Francais. Bien sur, merci pour les Etat Unis aussi. ❤

[@neddobrijevic3183]

🤣🤣🤣🤣👈🫵

[@laurymc1977]

He's right. We need peace for every nation. We don't need to fall for their socialism.