Lawmaker Zakaria Kutsnashvili suspended MP mandate

14:25, 03.09.2019

Lawmaker Zakaria Kutsnashvili was suspended MP mandate during the parliamentary plenary sitting this afternoon with 96 votes for.

Kutsnashvili rejected MP mandate on June 20 after the developments in front of the parliament building. He was the initiator of the religious assembly, which triggered the protests.

Protests in front of the parliament building at Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi have been held since June 20 in reaction to the visit of Sergey Gavrilov, a Russian lawmaker and his sitting in the parliamentary speaker’s chair during a religious assembly, which many Georgians saw as an unwelcome reminder of Russian military occupation of its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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Zakaria Kutsnashvili