The Georgian Dream led Government on February 20 voted to abolish some powers of civil services Bureau in Georgia. The parliament in this regard accepted the relevant amendment in first and final reading.
As per the information the amendment were introduced on Law on the “Structure, Powers and Procedures of the Government of Georgia”. Moreover, now after acceptance of amendments all the power which were previously with civil services Bureau will transfer to Georgian Dream led Government.
The newly introduced amendment was supported by the 81 member of parliament and due to this large support base of member parliament the amendment is accepted which paved way for abolition the powers of the civil services bureau.
Vakhtang Bachiashvili, the GD government’s Parliamentary Secretary, stated that “due to legislative changes, certain functions of the Bureau had been removed, including the declaration of officials’ assets. Similarly some powers have been conferred to anti-corruption bureau also.
It is worth to mentioned that many functions have been transferred from Bureau to parliament. In this regard Georgian Dream’s parliamentary secretary Vakhtang Bachiashvili added now the certain import function including declaration to officials’ assets has been revoked from Bureau Moreover he also cited this has main reason behind this move to abolish the Bureau as well.
As the law has been amended now amended law will come into force from the April 1 this year also. It is also to be note decision was already taken in this regard by the Georgian Dream government on February 3, 2025.
As per the official this move to reduce powers of Bureau was to “rationalize governance and optimize expenses so that the efficiency of Government can be enhanced as well.
However, the employees of the Bureau including Nino Tsukhishvili, were critical of the move and said this is not in favour of good governance also. similarly, the opposition parties are also critiquing the government saying that this is not the right move and only aim to stifle independent media voices.
