Giorgi Vashadze gives GD hour to withdraw People’s Power’s bills

Strategy Agmashenebeli leader Giorgi Vashadze on Wednesday gave an hour to the ruling Georgian Dream party to withdraw the People’s Power-tabled bills on ‘foreign agents’ and release yesterday’s rally attendees.

Vashadze said that the opposition’s next moves and demands would be announced shortly.

Georgians have been protesting for a second day against the so-called Foreign Agents bills that would require non-governmental and media organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents.”

The “No to the Russian law” rally kicked off on Tuesday after the Georgian Parliament passed a first reading of the legislation.

In violent clashes, the police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds.