Today, the Parliament discussed with the I reading and approved with 83 votes against 15 the Draft Organic Law on Constitutional Court concerning the disputes between the authorities of the Constitutional bodies.

The Draft was introduced by the Chair of the Legal Issues Committee, Anri Okhanashvili.

It empowers another Constitutional body to file a constitutional claim on the authority of the respective body if it considers that the adopted/promulgated legal act or committed action or omission fully or partially violated its constitutional authority. The Draft grants this right to the President of Georgia, Parliament, Government, High Council of Justice, Prosecutor General, Board of the National Bank, Auditor General, Public Defender, and the Supreme Representative or Executive Body of the Autonomous Republic.

“The current edition provides that the normative act shall be necessarily violated to make a dispute considered in the Constitutional Court. The gap in the Law implies a case if certain bodies have a dispute concerning the authorities and the Draft introduced serves for the procedural regulation of this very problem”, - the reporter noted.

The Draft will facilitate the enrichment of the constitutional justice, clarify the competencies and will not be a punitive mechanism.