Georgia’s Constitutional Court rejects country president’s motion to suspend law on ‘foreign agents’

The Constitutional Court of Georgia refused to suspend the so-called “foreign agents” law, as demanded by the country’s president Salome Zourabichvili, TASS writes.

“Not to approve the plaintiff’s motion to suspend the operation of the contested norms until the final decision in the case is made,” reads the court decision.

On Aug. 29, the Constitutional Court of Georgia started preliminary consideration of four lawsuits against the law on “foreign agents” on the margins of a single case. On Aug. 29, 30 and 31, the court heard the positions of the parties. Representatives of the president, opposition deputies, as well as non-governmental organizations and mass media expressed arguments that the law contradicts Article 78 of the Constitution, according to which the authorities must take all measures to integrate Georgia into the EU and NATO. They also demanded that the law be suspended until the court makes a final decision on the case.