Papuashvili Expels Opposition MPs from Parliament Session Hall

Before being expelled from the session, members of the opposition loudly protested against Russian law. The parliamentary majority and minority verbally confronted each other several times. The opposition demands that the Georgian Dream withdraw the Russian law on so-called foreign agents.

"They will definitely have to retreat - just like they had to last year. Because the Georgian people, the tens of thousands of young people we saw yesterday on Rustaveli Avenue, who were poisoned, beaten, and bleeding in the streets and alleys, will not allow the Russian Ivanishvili to take away their European future.

One by one, we were violently kicked out of the hall just because we were afraid to once again hear the voice of the Georgian people, the youth, and the international partners of Georgia. They unanimously and firmly repeat that this law deprives our country of its European future and Ivanishvili's party must withdraw it immediately," Kicked out of the meeting hall on Papuashvili's orders, the United National Movement’s chairman Tinatin Bokuchava said."

The Russian law will be discussed in the first reading at the plenary session. Despite public protest and international partners' criticism, Georgian Dream intends to vote on the draft law today.