“I do not expect a strict decision on sanctioning, but if the choice is between sovereignty and air tickets and visas, I would definitely choose motherland,” said Dimitri Khundadze, Secretary General of the People’s Power party.

Khundadze believes that the Georgian parliament will override the President’s veto on Transparency of Foreign Influence on May 28, and the law will be enacted.

According to Dimitri Khundadze, it was upon society to judge how objective the sanctions were when the ex-defence minister and a wanted former prosecutor general “walked freely in the West.”

“When Western law is in high demand in the West, and many countries have adopted this type of law to protect their country’s sovereignty, while the same law in Georgia is dubbed Russian, this is a double standard. Everyone in Georgia has the right and, even more, the obligation to protect their country’s sovereignty,” he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced a new visa restriction policy for Georgia that will apply to individuals who are responsible for or complicit in “undermining democracy” in Georgia, as well as their family members. U.S. Secretary said he had also launched a “comprehensive review” of bilateral cooperation between the United States and Georgia.