With planned amendments, Constitutional Court will be able to ban a party whose declared purpose and personnel repeat the composition and essence of activities of a party it has already banned

The Constitutional Court may ban a party whose declared purpose, the essence of its activities - including its personnel - repeats the declared purpose, the essence of the activities and the personnel of a party already banned by the court. This is the content of the planned amendments to the Law on Political Unions of Citizens, which was submitted to the Parliament by the Georgian Dream.

According to the legislation of Georgia, a party can be banned only by a decision of the Constitutional Court.

According to the current Law on Political Unions of Citizens, the Constitutional Court may ban a party whose goal is to overthrow or change the constitutional order of Georgia by force, encroach on the independence of the country, violate its territorial integrity, or which is engaged in propaganda of war or violence, incites national, ethnic, religious or social strife, creates or has created an armed formation.

The activities of a party may also be terminated on the basis of reorganization or self-liquidation.

After the banning or self-liquidation of a party, the remaining property shall be transferred to the state treasury.