Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party will once again submit a draft law on "foreign agents" to parliament. This was stated by the leader of the parliamentary faction Mamuka Mdinaradze.

Last year, on March 7, the Georgian parliament supported a similar Russian bill on "foreign agents" in the first reading. At the time, this caused large-scale protests, with security forces detaining people.

However, three days later, in the second reading, the Georgian parliament rejected the bill.

According to Mdinaradze, the text of the current draft law will be the same, but the term "agent of foreign influence" will be replaced with "organization that carries out the interests of a foreign state."

He explained that the only requirement of the draft law will be the publication of an annual financial report by organizations that receive foreign funding, and that violation of this requirement will only result in a fine.

Georgian Dream believes that the adoption of this law will ensure the transparency of non-governmental organizations that finance "extremism and revolutionary processes."