Salome Zourabichvili’s said a law that has sparked weeks of protests was “fundamentally Russian”.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/CmwGc
Unfortunately:
However, her veto is only symbolic as the prime minister’s Georgian Dream party has enough members in parliament to override it by holding another vote.
Nice.
On Tuesday MPs passed the controversial law which requires NGOs and independent media that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign donors to register as organisations “bearing the interests of a foreign power”.
Only independent media though, this doesn’t apply to…umm… non-independent media cough cough.
However, her veto is only symbolic as the prime minister’s Georgian Dream party has enough members in parliament to override it by holding another vote.
Imperialist puppet vetoes fundamentally correct law