Dissent has always been more or less protected in Georgia, but I would say that recently it has been protected in an ultra-liberal, overly so, which needs to be corrected - when the absolute majority respects some value and you go out in public and insult Georgian wine, the Georgian church, the patriarch, shouldn't that be punishable in your opinion?! No one has the right to insult the positions of the absolute majority! - This is how Member of Parliament Guram Macharashvili answered the question about the possible tightening of legislation to protect national values.

Macharashvili noted in the same context that "ultra-liberal legislation is slowly changing".

“If anything has saved Georgia, it is national identity and its protection. National identity includes faith, family traditions and all the values ​​on which the history of Georgia in general was built. That ultra-liberal legislation is slowly changing.

The principled approach of our People’s Power was that the internal, national identity should be protected at the level of legislation, which, of course, must be implemented in practice.

The more we protect national identity, the more we will protect sovereignty and the more partners we will have, because no one wants a country that has no dignity as a partner. There are indeed many countries as slaves and vassals. Many want Georgia to be like this, which has neither national identity nor faith, forgets the past and its future is easy to define. If anything has saved us, it was the protection of self-awareness and national identity!

Dissenting opinion has always been protected in Georgia, more or less, but I would say that recently it has been protected in an ultra-liberal, overly so, which needs to be corrected. By this I mean that there is a dissenting opinion. You can express it on the platform where you are: - you are a civil servant and after work, wherever you are, you can express it there, in parliament you can use the tribune and all the mechanisms that you have, you are an ordinary citizen and wherever you are, you can express your opinion, and so on. If someone punishes someone for this, it is wrong and such a thing has never happened, but when you insult values ​​such as faith, church, patriarch, traditions in a public space, this should certainly be punishable. When the absolute majority respects some value and you allow yourself to go out in a public space and insult Georgian wine, the Georgian church, the patriarch, in your opinion, shouldn't this be punishable?! Shouldn't the rights of the majority be protected?! What we are talking about here is that no one has the right to insult the positions of the absolute majority! "- said Guram Macharashvili.