Difference between Georgian Version of Constitutional Amendments and English One, Sent to the Venice Commission
June 9, 2010
“There is a difference between the Georgian version of the amendments to the constitution and its English copy, sent to the Venice Commission; Tea Tsulukiani - member of the organization “Our Georgia – Free Democrats,” reported to the InterpressNews. She spoke about the difference between the basic variant of the Georgian version approved by the State Commission on May 11, 2010 and its English version submitted to the Venice Commission.
‘More precisely, in accordance to Article 2 of the English version of the draft-law, the constitutional amendments shall enter into force on the day when the results of the 2013 presidential elections are announced. This requirement is not mentioned in the Georgian version”, Tsulukiani said.
She added that the mistake was deliberately made to mislead the Georgian society.
“Apparently, the Constitutional Commission and the state want to effortlessly implement desirable constitutional amendments so that the Georgian society will not have information when the amendments are introduced. Thus, the authority will avoid additional questions, criticism and protest. When the society learns what happened, all amendments will have already been implemented, and Mikheil Saakashvili will become Prime Minister of the country without much noise,” said Tsulukiani.
In this regard, Irakli Alasania, leader of the Alliance for Georgia, sent an official letter to Avtandil Demetrashvili, chairman of the National Constitutional Commission, and requested an official explanation of reason that a different version of the draft-law was sent to the Venice Commission and based on which concrete opinions the National Commission estimated that Constitutional amendments shall put in force only after the final results of the 2013 presidential elections are announced. He sent a copy of the letter to Gianni Buquicchio, head of the Venice Commission.
Tea Tsulukiani worked on the appeals submitted to the Strasbourg Court from Georgia in 2000-2010; she studied the validity of the appeals, wrote conclusions and judgments. She has written decisions on such famous cases like Asanidze’s case, case of Panjikidze and Kurashvili, Gorgiladze’s case, etc. Since 2007 Tea Tsulukiani worked on the case “Enukidze and Girgvliani VS Georgia.” She joined “Our Georgia – Free Democrats” in May 2010.
‘More precisely, in accordance to Article 2 of the English version of the draft-law, the constitutional amendments shall enter into force on the day when the results of the 2013 presidential elections are announced. This requirement is not mentioned in the Georgian version”, Tsulukiani said.
She added that the mistake was deliberately made to mislead the Georgian society.
“Apparently, the Constitutional Commission and the state want to effortlessly implement desirable constitutional amendments so that the Georgian society will not have information when the amendments are introduced. Thus, the authority will avoid additional questions, criticism and protest. When the society learns what happened, all amendments will have already been implemented, and Mikheil Saakashvili will become Prime Minister of the country without much noise,” said Tsulukiani.
In this regard, Irakli Alasania, leader of the Alliance for Georgia, sent an official letter to Avtandil Demetrashvili, chairman of the National Constitutional Commission, and requested an official explanation of reason that a different version of the draft-law was sent to the Venice Commission and based on which concrete opinions the National Commission estimated that Constitutional amendments shall put in force only after the final results of the 2013 presidential elections are announced. He sent a copy of the letter to Gianni Buquicchio, head of the Venice Commission.
Tea Tsulukiani worked on the appeals submitted to the Strasbourg Court from Georgia in 2000-2010; she studied the validity of the appeals, wrote conclusions and judgments. She has written decisions on such famous cases like Asanidze’s case, case of Panjikidze and Kurashvili, Gorgiladze’s case, etc. Since 2007 Tea Tsulukiani worked on the case “Enukidze and Girgvliani VS Georgia.” She joined “Our Georgia – Free Democrats” in May 2010.
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