Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili told CNN she would veto the law, but the country’s parliament can override that with a simple majority, APA reports.
Speaking to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Zourabichvili said the upcoming elections in October will give the population a chance to “reverse” the bill. “We have to use this mobilization of the society and this consolidation of the political parties to go and win those elections because that’s the European way,” she said.
President Zourabichvili called the legislation a “Russian law,” adding that Georgians are “very well aware of these old Russian Soviet propaganda tricks, so it doesn’t work. They see what’s happening and they’re going to stop it from happening.”
