The ruling Georgian Dream party has reintroduced well-known draft law on Transparency of Foreign Influence which was revoked after mass rallies a year ago.

The draft Law has already been tabled in the Parliament of Georgia with a single difference –  the term agent of foreign influence was substituted with organization pursuing the interests of a foreign power.

The organizations will be obliged to fill in the annual declaration of financial income. Failure to register or complete the declaration will result in a 25,000 GEL fine.

The Chair of the parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdnaradze said, “This year, everyone will have to enter into a substantive discussion which will show the public the scale of the lies that they have inflicted on the Georgian public.”

“Comparable laws are in force in the U.S., Israel, and Australia, and the discussion has been underway in the European Union, Great Britain, France, Canada, Slovakia, and Ukraine, which further confirms the relevance of this issue in terms of the protection of democracy and sovereignty. It is the sovereign right and responsibility of the state to ensure transparency of information concerning foreign funding to the people and their democratically mandated government,” - Mdinaradze declared.