Anti-LGBTQ bill, curbing the rights of LGBTQ people, have been signed into law in Georgia, Edum News reports.
The bill was signed on Thursday by the spear of the Georgia’s parliament.
This was despite the warnings from the European Union, EU, and is coming a day after Georgia’s pro-Western president Salome Zurabishvili — at loggerheads with the ruling Georgian Dream party — refused to sign the bill.
The bill is similar to Moscow’s “gay propaganda” law, which also bans gender reassignment and nullifies same-sex marriages performed abroad or on Georgian territory.
The ruling Georgian Dream pushed the bill through parliament last month, a vote boycotted by the opposition and which has fuelled tensions ahead of crucial October 26 parliamentary elections.
Papuashvili said the measure is based on common sense, historical experience and centuries-old Christian, Georgian, and European values, rather than on changeable ideas and ideologies.
“In conformity with the constitution, I signed today the law ‘on family values and the protection of minors’, which Salome Zurabishvili didn’t sign,” speaker Shalva Papuashvili said on Facebook.
Written by Hope James
