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President Salome Zurabishvili late on December 27 called for suspending the fast-tracked review of the controversial bill to dissolve the State Inspector’s Office, an independent agency to monitor personal data protection and probe abuse of power.

“Initiating the decision to abolish an independent state institution, the State Inspector’s Service, without prior consultations and expediting its review is unacceptable,” the Georgian President highlighted. 

President Zurabishvili added that the proposal to dissolve the Service and establish two separate agencies instead would not only leave a woman in charge of an independent state body without a job, but also more than 100 employees of the Inspector.