The law is between democracy and demagogy
2009-07-08 18:11 Still, one can hardly believe in the opposition's retreat even if the new law comes into force.In fact, the oppositional activists are not making any secret of the current summer recess being the sign of an autumn storm. At the end of July, the oppositionists intend to bring thousands of their supporters into the streets in order to show the USA Vice President Joseph Biden the scope of their dissatisfaction with the current authorities. What should Saakashvili do? He is evidently not going to meet the distinguished guest with a special purpose police unit for breaking up the demonstrators, for it will hardly speak in favour of the "democracy leader" in the post-Soviet territory, which the West regards Mikhail Nikolaevitch to be.
The fact that the future amendments will do the country an ill service and will negatively affect its image has been also underlined by expert Soso Tsiskarishvili. "Considering the current situation, I do not think that Georgia will require any more steps that will lead the country back from democracy. Our common desire is to move towards democracy, while the proposed amendments to the legislation rather resemble the steps hastily taken by the frightened authorities than a true necessity", - the GHN agency is quoting the expert.
However, either under the experts', or under the press' influence, or else, out of the self-preservation instinct, the Georgian authorities announced that they are not going to hurry on the new regulations for the protest actions, though the package of amendments to the law has been considered today by the Legal Committee of the Georgian parliament in first hearing.
This decision was confirmed by that very Head of the Legal Committee Pavel Kublashvili, who recently tried to shove the amendments through the parliament. According to GHN, perhaps, such a humiliating manner was deliberately assumed to show that they "have got no desire to listen to the opposition's screaming". According to Kublashvili, the date when the amendments are to come into force has not been agreed upon so far, thus remaining open.
Well, just like the last spring and the beginning of summer, the autumn in Georgia is evidently going to be stormy.
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Irina Ptashkovskaya
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