Outrage in Georgia after MPs override presidential veto on foreign influence bill

Georgia’s parliament has voted to override a presidential veto on the ‘foreign influence’ law, which will require civil society organisations and media that receive more than 20% of their revenues from abroad to register as ‘organisations serving the interests of foreign powers’. The bill caused mass protests and international condemnation after it was approved this month. The Georgian president, Salome Zourabichvili, later vetoed the law, which she and critics argue is modelled on a 2012 Russian bill used to suppress pro-western groups. The parliament speaker may sign the bill into law in the coming days