Georgia’s parliament passed a package of anti-LGBTQ laws on Sept. 17 in its third reading. The bills will still need to be signed by pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili to become law — but a veto by the president can still be overcome by a subsequent vote in parliament. The package of laws, based around a core bill entitled “On Protection of Family Values and Minors,” was first proposed in March by Mamuka Mdinaradze, the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party’s faction in parliament.