The Chairman of the Parliament’s Committee on Education, Science and Youth Affairs, claimed non-governmental organisations had actually admitted with their statements that this sector was not “transparent”.

Givi Mikanadze highlighted a survey conducted by the Georgian Dream, which showed that out of 121 NGOs that had submitted a constitutional lawsuit against the Law on Transparency, only 21 were observing the minimum standard for transparency.

“Two weeks ago, we presented a basic survey on transparency and access to information of NGOs and media organisations. Only a handful of organisations had the minimum standards related to transparency and access to information.

This once again shows how deplorable the situation is in this sector, how opaque this sector is. It should probably be thought-provoking for the public, who are those organizations that, with a constitutional lawsuit, are already applying to the Constitutional Court for the annulment of the law. They are neither transparent nor have any desire to report to the public and take a step forward…

After that, representatives of a number of NGOs made statements, in which they tried to somehow cover this issue, stating that, for example, small local community and regional organisations do not have a website, citing financial costs although, of course, this cannot be an excuse for the main purpose. This is about reporting to the public”, - said Givi Mikanadze.