Procedural Issues and Rules Committee discusses alternative anti-corruption agency bill

20:36, 09.11.2022

The parliamentary Procedural Issues and Rules Committee discussed an alternative anti-corruption agency bill. MP Davit Usupashvili introduced the committee members and attending non-governmental organizations’ representatives to the legislative initiative of opposition by lawmakers Salome Samadashvili, Badri Japaridze, Shalva Shavgulidze, and Ana Natsvlishvili.

Usupashvili, who is also a bill co-author, said that the agency should be independent, not subordinated to anybody administratively or politically, with investigative actions accountable to the Prosecutor’s Office.

“The draft is in line with European recommendations and meets national interests,” Usupashvili added.

Following the discussion, Committee Chair Irakli Kadagishvili stated that the committee had unfavourably assessed the document, even though “such an evaluation was simply argument-based, free of political context.”

This would allow MPs to continue the discussion in the Law Affairs Committee.

By - Elene Dobordjginidze

Politics

anti-corruption agency bill

Davit Usupashvili