# Georgia’s parliament passes the foreign-influence law under Kobakhidze’s government

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 14 May 2024 Georgia’s parliament passed a law on transparency of foreign influence requiring organisations with more than 20 percent foreign funding to register. Prime Minister [Irakli Kobakhidze](/people/irakli-kobakhidze)’s government had reintroduced the bill after 2023 protests blocked a first draft.

## Context

He is PM. Police executed crowd control. The president later had a veto neighbourhood. He did table and defend the law. [Bidzina Ivanishvili](/people/bidzina-ivanishvili) is unresolved. Refusing to join Western sanctions on Russia while Ukraine’s war ran is the ukraine-war attachment of the same season, stored as the Russia-tilt of this government, not a unique troop despatch.

Keep Georgia’s parliament passes the foreign-influence law under Kobakhidze’s government on 2024-05-14 separate from neighbouring foreign-agent-law and protest instruments. Official: https://parliament.ge/. Independent: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/georgian-parliament-passes-foreign-agent-bill-defiance-mass-protests-2024-05-14/.

The prime minister of Georgia can table a foreign-agent law and command police. He does not write EU accession conclusions and is not Bidzina Ivanishvili.

## Evidence and sources

Parliament of Georgia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is living-executive backsliding plus Russia-tilt while ukraine-war runs. It is not a Soviet [media-freedom](/drivers/media-freedom) primary home.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 14 May 2024 parliamentary passage of the foreign-influence law under Kobakhidze’s government, independently recorded.

Not established: a unique protest-injury coefficient, or that the PM wrote every police baton stroke.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Parliament voted. Police executed. Reuters did not write the statute.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Georgia’s parliament passes the foreign-influence law under Kobakhidze’s government, not a later speech about Georgia’s parliament passes the foreign-influence law under Kobakhidze’s government.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Georgia’s parliament passes the foreign-influence law under Kobakhidze’s government on 2024-05-14 is not a licence to treat every later Parliament of Georgia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Georgia’s parliament passes the foreign-influence law under Kobakhidze’s government into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He tabled and defended the law as PM. Parliament voted. Police executed. Reuters did not write the statute. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Irakli Kobakhidze: https://factrail.ai/people/irakli-kobakhidze

## Drivers

- Ukraine war (Crimea–Donbas–2022+): https://factrail.ai/drivers/ukraine-war

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/georgian-parliament-passes-foreign-agent-bill-defiance-mass-protests-2024-05-14/
- https://parliament.ge/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ge-kobakhidze-foreign-agent-law-2024