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Ruling Georgian Dream lawmakers mull changes in the law over competence disputes to seemingly help the governing party ahead of a forthcoming legal row with President Salome Zurabishvili in the Constitutional Court.

Currently, as per the Law on Constitutional Court, state bodies have the right to lodge a constitutional claim over competencies against another body primarily if there are questions regarding the compliance of normative acts – adopted/issued by the defendant — with the Constitution.

But, according to proposed changes proposed, published in the media on March 19, the GD wants to add a rather ambiguous “action or inaction” to the list of legal grounds for suing another state body.

The Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA), a key local watchdog, accused the Georgian Dream party of attempts to achieve their party goals by amending the law.