Stefanchuk reminded Boyka who is actually responsible for the violence in Ukraine

Borodyanka destroyed by the occupiers and the Shevchenko monument shot through. photo by Dmytro Larin, UP

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, reminded the head of the “Platform for Life and Peace” deputy group in the parliament Yuriy Boyka, who will raise the thesis of Russian propaganda about “radicals” who are actually responsible for the violence in Ukraine.

Source: Stefanchuk on Facebook

Direct speech: “One cannot talk about the ban on going to church without mentioning the destruction of more than 500 churches of various denominations by the Rashists.

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One cannot talk about desecration of monuments without mentioning the head of the Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, which was shot by Russian looters.

And in general, you can’t talk about any violence against people without mentioning Putin, who is the only one to blame for all this.”

Details: The Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Olena Kondratiuk, said in her turn that the parliament can consider Boyko’s statements, which repeat Russian propaganda, at the conciliation council.

“The question of unity is the key to the future of Ukraine. Therefore, of course, when we see such expressive statements, this is only evidence that some political forces have smelled the election. And this, in my opinion, is very shameful… They need an adequate political response I think that we will also consider this at the Consensus Council of the Parliament Kondratyuk “Radio Liberty”.

What preceded: Yury Boyko, the head of the parliamentary group “Platform for Life and Peace” in the parliament, which was created from former members of the Ukrainian Communist Party, former minister and deputy prime minister during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, published a statement with pro-Russian theses about alleged “radicals” and “the ban on speaking in the native language” in Ukraine .

For reference: OPZZH (“Opposition Platform – For Life”) is a pro-Russian political party banned in Ukraine that operated in 1999-2022. The leaders of the party were Yuriy Boyko, Vadym Rabinovych, the best man of the ruler of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Medvedchuk and Serhiy Lyovochkin, Nestor Shufrych was also a member of the party. In 2022, the activity of OPZZH was banned.

Suspected of treason, Medvedchuk was detained by the SBU in 2022, stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship, and later handed over to Russia in exchange for Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol, in particular, Azov fighters.

In 2023, Shufrych was charged with treason. He is in custody.

As the “Chesno” movement wrote, the leadership of the “Servant of the People” party – Davyd Arakhamiya and Olena Shulyak and almost 70 other parliamentarians refused to sign an appeal to the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, in which it was proposed to put to a vote the initiative to remove the powers of deputies from the OPZZ. The “Fatherland” faction also became an opponent of this initiative, almost in its entirety.

The presidential “Servant of the People” and Yulia Tymoshenko’s “Batkivshchyna” stated that they did not support the resolution on the termination of the powers of all parliamentarians from the “Opposition Platform for Life” party, because the decision would be unconstitutional, and they want to deprive the People’s Deputies of “OPZZH” of their mandates in a constitutional way .

According to Article 81 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the powers of people’s deputies are terminated simultaneously with the termination of the powers of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

The powers of a people’s deputy of Ukraine are terminated prematurely in the event of:

1) drawing up powers based on his personal application;

2) entry into force of a guilty verdict against him;

3) recognition by the court as incapacitated or missing;

4) termination of his citizenship or his departure for permanent residence outside Ukraine;

5) if within twenty days from the date of occurrence of circumstances that lead to the violation of the requirements regarding the incompatibility of the deputy’s mandate with other types of activities, these circumstances are not eliminated by him;

6) non-entry of a People’s Deputy of Ukraine elected from a political party (electoral bloc of political parties) into the parliamentary faction of this political party (electoral bloc of political parties) or withdrawal of a People’s Deputy of Ukraine from the composition of such a faction;

7) his death.

Representatives of the “Servant of the People” party and the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada often state that people’s deputies from OPZZ are “useful” because they give votes in a situation when the monomajority lacks its own.

We will remind: As “Ukrainian Pravda” wrote, according to the measurements of sociologists, after three years of full-scale war, the new conditional “Party of Regions” can still expand its activities in the electoral field to the extent of 20-30%.

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