"Foreign agents" law in Georgia will be challenged in the Constitutional Court

Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili and a segment of the opposition plan to challenge the controversial “foreign agents” law, passed by the country’s parliament in May 2024, in the Constitutional Court. Lawsuits demanding the suspension of the law and its eventual annulment will be filed at the end of July. Presidential parliamentary secretary Giorgi Mskhiladze stated that this marks the first instance of a Georgian president filing a lawsuit in the Constitutional Court. According to him, the “foreign agents” law (“On Transparency of Foreign Influence”) contradicts Article 78 of the Georgian...