Georgian Dream faction head Mamuka Mdinaradze said the decision to withdraw its two controversial "foreign agent" bills was taken in order to prevent further unrest.
Mdinaradze said risks to safety of protesters could have increased had the demonstrations gone on.
"The main starting point was to make sure we did not put at risk the health and life of even one person, even one child who was there [at protest rallies]. As it turned out, risks of this could have increased in relation to many factors, on many grounds”, he said.
The GD official confirmed the bill, which passed its first hearing at the Parliament on Tuesday, would fail at the second hearing as prescribed by procedures for withdrawn legislation.
The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament also sent a letter to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe for withdrawal of the bill from the body’s consideration. Georgian authorities had sent the draft law to the Commission for its opinion.
