Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze addressed the public gathering at the Georgian Parliament, saying “Pseudo-liberal propaganda is taking place in the country with is an attack on the Orthodox Church and an attempt to sow disorder.”

Kaladze went on to say, “Today is a decisive battle to protect Georgia’s sovereignty and national identity.”

“They argue that white is black, transparency is bad, and LGBT propaganda is good; NGOs have the right to try to organise as many revolutions as they want in Georgia, and we should not even inquire about the source of their funds; when they plan the revolution again, the Georgian people should not know where the funds come from or who is financing it.

The past few weeks proved that over 90 per cent of the NGOs’ funds serve to strengthen the agency in Georgia. It turned out that majority of the funds, which were supposedly used for agriculture, care for disabled people, or the Caucasian House, were not wasted. As soon as they needed, they brought out all these NGOs together and opposed the national interests.

They explicitly state that Georgians have nothing to do with them and have no right to know who is funding pseudo-liberal propaganda in our nation, attacks on the Orthodox Church, drug promotion, radicalism, and relentless attempts to spark unrest in the country.

They claim that the Georgian people should be unaware of this, but we will not let that happen. Our current struggle over the passage of legislation on NGOs and LGBT propaganda is more than just a struggle to pass two laws; it is a critical effort to safeguard Georgia’s sovereignty and national identity,” Kaladze remarked.