Last year, the Georgian government and society were promised that foreign financing in Georgia would be transparent. We were deceived,” stated the Georgian Parliament Speaker, Shalva Papuashvili, during the Imedi Live program.

According to him, some donors refuse to disclose their funding despite his efforts to communicate with them.

“There are specific donors who refuse to publicize their funding, although I have personally communicated sometimes directly with the donor, sometimes through various states and diplomatic representatives. These organizations are not willing to reveal what they spend their money on in Georgia. The groups trying to suppress common sense with their screams are exactly those financed from such funds, refusing to make their finances public,” he stated.

The draft Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence was initiated in the Parliament of Georgia, and the amendments will be discussed further in the Bureau session next Monday.

The Georgian Dream party stated that the draft law presented in parliament this year is identical to the one proposed last year, except for one change. Instead of using the term ‘foreign agent,’ the new version uses the phrase ‘an organization carrying out the interests of a foreign power’.