“Any funding related to politics, whether directly or indirectly, should be transparent to the public,” Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists.
The Prime Minister accused NGOs of deliberately avoiding transparency, describing it as clear evidence that they are concealing something in their funding.
“First and foremost, the public deserves to know why these organisations are hiding their funding from the Georgian people. Remember, their main argument was about stigma; they claimed they did not want to be registered as agents of foreign influence. Yet, at that time, they openly registered as a foreign power. This clearly demonstrates how false their claims about stigma were, as well as their objections to the transparency law overall. Any funding, whether directly or indirectly related to politics, should be transparent to the public. These organisations are avoiding this, which is undeniable proof that they have something in their funding that they are trying to conceal,” the Prime Minister stated.