26 after sitting MP Beslan Butba had been appointed as acting Vice Premier in the aftermath of the 2014 Abkhazian revolution.
[6][7] As Ainar's only MP, Japua proposed a moratorium on the sale of real estate to foreign citizens for as long as the necessary legal framework was absent, including a cadastre and zoning plans.
[10][11] During an emergency session of Parliament in the evening of the following Monday, 18 April, Japua proposed to discuss both rival bills there and then, but the deputies decided to delay the matter until the following Thursday.
[9][12] A few hundred people only broke off their protest in front of Parliament after Speaker Valeri Bganba announced that the rival bill proposing the legalisation of the sale of real estate to foreign citizens had been withdrawn.
[9] The moratorium in its original form was criticised by Bganba as legally vacuous, because Parliament could not restrict its own law-making powers.