The Legislative Package on the Ban of Political Parties was considered and supported by the Legal Issues Committee in the second reading.

The planned amendments to the Law on Political Unions of Citizens and the Law on the Constitutional Court will be submitted to the plenary session this week.

According to the draft, the Constitutional Court will be able to ban a party the declared purpose, essence of activity and personnel composition of which repeat the declared purpose, essence of activity and personnel composition of a party already banned by the court.

With the same amendments, the deadlines for the Constitutional Court to make a decision on the constitutionality of a party's activities are being tightened. According to the draft, the deadline for issuing a decision on a lawsuit related to the constitutionality of a party should not exceed 9 months from the filing of the lawsuit, and during the election period - 14 days.

The legislative package was submitted to the Parliament by the Georgian Dream faction.