Ruling party official says domestic transparency law may no longer be necessary following Trump’s decision to suspend US foreign assistance programs

Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said the domestic law on the transparency of foreign influence may no longer be necessary as the United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order on temporarily suspending all United States foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they were aligned with his policy goals.

In his remarks, Mdinaradze noted that Trump’s decision had proved that the domestic transparency law was not just good, but necessary.

“[Trump’s] decision will have the following impact - we may no longer need the transparency law at all. In other words, this even proved that the transparency law was not just good, but necessary. One of Trump's first decisions confirmed this. Let them now call this decision Russian”, Mdinaradze said.