This audio is created with AI assistance Georgian President Salome Zourabishvili has filed a motion against the law on "foreign agents" to the Constitutional Court of Georgia, the presidential secretary, Georgiy Mskhiladze, said on July 15 at a briefing at the presidential administration. The Georgian president has appealed to the Constitutional Court for the first time over a law, according to Mskhiladze. The law is unconstitutional and contradicts Article 78 of the Georgian Constitution, he added.

Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili and a segment of the opposition plan to challenge the controversial “foreign agents” law, passed by the country’s parliament in May 2024, in the Constitutional Court. Lawsuits demanding the suspension of the law and its eventual annulment will be filed at the end of July. Presidential parliamentary secretary Giorgi Mskhiladze stated that this marks the first instance of a Georgian president filing a lawsuit in the Constitutional Court.

Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, appeals to the country’s Constitutional Court in an effort to repeal the foreign agents law. The President’s appeal challenges the law on the basis of Article 78 of the Georgian Constitution, which requires the constitutional bodies to take all measures to ensure Georgia’s full integration into the EU and NATO, as well as other constitutional rights.