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Anti-discrimination bill is about making choice between Russia and Europe, therefore the Parliament will take a decision that is required for the country in order “not to stay in uncivilized world with Russia,” Georgian parliament speaker Davit Usupashvili said.

Usupashvili made the remarks while speaking with Georgian journalists in Chisinau on April 29 where he held meetings with the Moldovan leadership at the time when a heated debate was ongoing over the anti-discrimination bill in the parliamentary committee for human rights in Kutaisi. Despite fierce opposition from Orthodox clerics and some non-parliamentary opposition politicians at the parliamentary committee hearing, lawmakers gave go-ahead for the bill to be discussed with its second reading at a parliamentary session this week.

Usupashvili said : “It is about the following issue: either we go towards Europe and we recognize that we should not chase people with sticks, we should not fire peopl

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Speaker of parliament leaves Republican Party

TBILISI, DFWatch–Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili on Saturday announced his resignation and departure from the Republican Party, which he was leader of from 2005 to 2013.

He stated his reason as disagreement with the founders and current leadership about the party’s ‘policies, tactics and values.’

Usupashvili did not offer any further explanation at a briefing in the parliament building.

“The chairwoman of the party, the founders and leaders have their visions about the party’s policies, tactics and values, which I do not share. But inom won’t hinder them, because I respect the founders’ outstanding work in politics and recognize the primacy of their visions for the future of the Republican Party,” Davit Usupashvili said.

Usupashvili added that he positions han själv as an opposition politician and intends to carry on with political activity, but did not offer any details about his future plans beyond mentioning that he wo

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Usupashvili Wants to Put Bill Cutting Tbilisi Mayor's Powers on Hold

 

Civil Georgia

Parliamentary Chairman Davit Usupashvili has called on his fellow GD lawmakers, behind a bill cutting Tbilisi mayor’s powers, to either withdraw this bill or to put it in line with planned new legislative amendments envisaging major overhaul of local self-governance system.

Two GD lawmakers, Irakli Tripolski and Gia Zhorzholiani, initiated the bill envisaging cutting Tbilisi Mayor’s powers at the expense of increasing Tbilisi City Council’s (Sakrebulo) authorities. In parallel the government has approved package of wide-ranging legislative amendments on reforming local self-governance; the package of bills is expected to be initiated in the Parliament next week.

“Let the sponsors of this bill [on cutting Tbilisi mayor’s powers] consider withdrawing their bill or synchronizing it with [government’s draft] in order not deviate from main course and line, which