The speaker of Georgia's parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, today promulgated the law banning LGBT propaganda after the head of state, Salome Zurabishvili, returned it to parliament on Wednesday.
Georgia's constitution states that if the head of state does not enact a law, the prerogative to do so lies with the speaker of parliament.
“I passed the law in accordance with the Constitution,” Papuashvili wrote on the social network Facebook, stressing that the new law ‘defends the most important values: the family and children’.
The 'Family Values and Protection of Minors' law, which bans the propaganda of non-traditional relationships, same-sex marriages and the adoption of children by homosexual couples, was promoted by the Georgian Dream party.
This law establishes a penalty of up to four years in prison for sex reassignment surgeries and a fine for spreading propaganda about homosexual relationships in educational institutions.
“The enactment of the law will provoke criticism from some foreign partners, but we Georgians are not afraid of other people's assessments of our faith, sanity and loyalty to the country,” stressed the leader of the legislature.
The European Union (EU), which Georgia intends to join, has previously deplored the Georgian authorities' plans to pass the controversial law “hastily” and without consulting society.
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