Lawsuits filed in the Constitutional Court against the Russian Law will be consolidated into one proceeding and considered in a plenary format. The court's chairman, Merab Turava, stated today that the decision will be made "within a reasonable time frame."
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"You want me to provide a specific date, but I am not authorized to do so because I do not know the position of my colleagues. The decision will be made within a reasonable time frame. Not only do we have to read the law, but we also have to conduct comparative law research, and that will take at least a month. The plenum of the Constitutional Court determines the deadlines. At this stage, judges are studying the lawsuits," Turava told the media.
In response to a journalist from the TV company Pirveli, who mentioned that according to assessments by Georgia's European and American partners, "this is the Russian law, and we will go directly to Russia," Turava said:
"We will see, we will read... in which Russia? To the north? As far as I know, I have not given such a direction for myself and my country in any case. I don't think the goal, the idea of our state, is to move towards the north. For years, I was a scholarship holder, I had a prize, and various foreign funding."
As of today, three lawsuits against the Russian law have been submitted to the Constitutional Court. Following the lawsuits filed by the president, 121 media and non-governmental organizations, and 38 opposition deputies of parliament also applied to the Constitutional Court today.
The plaintiffs believe that the law contradicts Article 78 of the Constitution, which obliges all constitutional bodies to take all measures within their powers to ensure Georgia's full integration into the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The plaintiffs demand the use of a temporary measure and the suspension of the implementation of the law on September 3 until a final decision is made on the case.
