Parliament committee chair: parliamentary group to present bill on deoligarchisation
In his remarks over the matter, Okhanashvili noted discussions on the bill would begin after the Council of Europe's Venice Commission submitted its report on the Ukrainian version of a similar initiative. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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Anri Okhanashvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's legal affairs committee from the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said the working group engaged in implementing European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status was preparing to present its bill on deoligarchisation.
In his remarks over the matter, Okhanashvili noted discussions on the bill would begin after the Council of Europe's Venice Commission submitted its report on the Ukrainian version of a similar initiative.
It [the bill] repeats the Ukrainian model of deoligarchisation. We will hear views on this bill, to see if there are proposals from the members of the working group. [...] As for the discussions, they will start after we have the report of the Venice Commission regarding the Ukrainian model”, the parliament official said.
Okhanashvili stressed the goal was to achieve the amendments through a “broad consensus”, and added views of “all political groups and international partners” on the issue would be “interesting”.
We have taken as an objective measure the approach of the European structures, which practically approved the Ukrainian model [on the deoligarchisation]. Ukraine is the only country where this law is applied. European structures expressed their interest in this law and stated it was necessary for Ukraine to implement it”, Okhanashvili noted.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said the bill on deoligarchisation, a draft addressing one of the conditions of the European Union for granting Georgia the membership candidate status, would not be passed by the ruling team if consensus among the nongovernmental sector, the “radical” domestic opposition and the EU was against it.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament’s European Union Integration Committee, on Friday rejected the notion that her meeting with a delegation of the European Parliament had tied the deoligarchisation condition for Georgia’s European Union membership status to “solutions tailored to one person”.
Mikheil Sarjveladze, the Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the Georgian Parliament, on Wednesday said the former Prime Minister and the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili was no longer involved in the domestic politics “in any way”, “regardless of whether his opponents want to believe it or not”.
In a letter addressed to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said allegations on the Georgian Government being run by the former Prime Minister and founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili were “offensive to me personally and to my country”.
Georgia is a small country, we have a lot of challenges, some of the territories are occupied and we need “stronger” partners and allies, as well as “strong relations” with “everyone”, especially with our “main partners” - the United States and the European Union, the Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Tuesday.
Georgian culture minister Tea Tsulukiani on Wednesday said the “radical part” of the domestic opposition was“utterly disappointed” by the recent move of the ruling Georgian Dream party to propose a bill on deoligarchisation as part of the conditions set by the European Commission in June for Georgia’s membership candidate status.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday called on the United States ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan to “be clear in her statements” regarding the issue of deoligarchisation in the country.
Mikheil Sarjveladze, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s committee on human rights, on Monday said the law on deoligarchisation, designed to address one of the conditions of the European Union for granting Georgia the membership candidate status, was not created “in favour or against specific persons”.
The Georgian parliament on Thursday approved the bill on deoligarchisation, a part of the conditions for obtaining the European Union membership candidate status, in its first reading.
Gia Volski, a ruling party MP and the vice speaker of the Georgian parliament, on Thursday said the “main task” of the domestic opposition was to ensure the “destabilisation” of the political environment in the country, after a section of the opposition boycotted a parliament bill proposed for fulfilling European Union-outlined priorities for Georgia.
Georgian parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Friday said the deoligarchisation bill proposed by the ruling party as part of work for fulfilling conditions for obtaining the European Union membership candidate status was “free from political interests” as it was based on Ukrainian legislation.
Anri Okhanashvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's legal affairs committee, on Thursday said the ruling team was holding consultations with European bodies to make sure there were “no ambiguities” around the domestic deoligarchisation bill.
Anri Okhanashvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's legal affairs committee, on Monday said the lawmaking body had not yet made a decision on whether the bill on deoligarchisation would be forwarded for comments to the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said the ruling team had decided to forward the domestic bill on deoligarchisation for comments to the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission.