The Legal Issues Committee Chairman, Anri Okhanashvili, expelled two more opposition MPs, Salome Samadashvili and Tamar Charkviani, from the second reading of the Russian Law.
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Opposition Lelo member Salome Samadashvili stated that based on the content of the first article of the law, Georgian citizens may lose the possibility of visa-free travel to the European Union, at which point Anri Okhanashvili "deprived her of the right to speak." Based on Okhanashvili's explanation, Salome Samadashvili was asking a question that did not concern the first article.
"The truth is simple - Georgia will lose visa-free access to the EU if this law is adopted. To avoid discussing it, they expelled me from the meeting. They have no answer to the question. The real result of this law is, first of all, the suspension of negotiations with the European Union and the cancellation of visa-free travel. They don't want to hear this truth, including those people who will be called to the parliament today," said Samadashvili. She was forcibly taken out of the meeting hall by bailiffs.
Regarding the expulsion of Tamar Charkviani, Anri Okhanashvili was irritated by the deputy's response, which concerned the transparency of the incomes of the former prime minister and current chairman of Georgian Dream, Irakli Gharibashvili, and his family. Additionally, Charkviani told the leaders of Georgian Dream that hundreds of thousands of people at the rally against the Russian law call them traitors, to which Mamuka Mdinaradze, the author of the law, replied that "millions will call Charkviani a traitor."
At the moment, five opposition MPs - Giorgi Vashadze, Tamar Kordzaia, Levan Bezhashvili, Salome Samadashvili, and Tamar Charkviani - have been expelled from consideration of the Russian Law. The chairman of the committee has issued a warning and threatens to expel other opposition members as well.
