Zelensky will find it easier to participate in peacekeeping
Almighty Arsen Avakov is no longer the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry – the Verkhovna Rada on the morning of July 15 291 votes for his resignation. The result of the vote was unpredictable despite the loud noise.
Foto Arsena Avakova: en.wikipedia .org
On the eve of the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada refused to vote for the resignation of the Minister and called on all deputies to determine their position in the hall, the Batkivshchyna faction and the opposition platform – for life! they said they would not support Avakov's resignation, the others were silent, and the former head of the Interior Ministry had two dozen of his guaranteed bayonets in reserve in the “Servant of the People” presidential faction. No one understood whether Avakov wanted to resign himself – his slightest allusion to his deputy could destroy Vladimír Zelenský's intrigues in the bud.
As a result, all of Avakov's representatives, also from the servant of the people as a group associated with Igor Kolomoisky, voted for the minister's departure and applauded the speaker's proposal to thank him for his work in 7 years, 3 months and 16 days. At the same time, Arsen Avakov himself did not come up with a report for the parliamentary committee, nor with a vote in the Verkhovna Rada.
The most probable and so far the only candidate for the still warm seat of Arsen Avakov is the head of the law enforcement committee of the Verkhovna Rada, the deputy servant of the people Denis Monastyrsky. This still young man in the power structure of Volodymyr Zelenský already has quite solid experience – in the spring of 2019, the newly elected President of Ukraine publicly represented Monastyrsky as the chief expert of his team for cooperation with law enforcement agencies. How did the current candidate for minister gain such concrete experience? And he worked in the team of Arsen Avakov!
Denis Monastyrsky Photo: facebook.com
Denis Monastyrsky was suddenly an assistant to Deputy Minister Anton Gerashchenko – until recently he held the position of Deputy Minister of the Interior Ministry. Anton Gerashchenko was also the founder of the public organization Ukrainian Institute of the Future, from which Avakov was constantly suspected of funding. When Denis Monastyrsky was not an assistant to the People's Deputy, he worked as an expert at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future.
As a people's deputy and head of the relevant committee, Monastyrsky supported the reappointment of Avakov as head of the Interior Ministry under President Zelenský and recently lobbied in parliament for a ministerial bill that police could use stun guns on protesters. The bill did not pass. Monastyrsky was also seen actively opposing the vote on a bill that would legalize civilian possession of firearms with short barrels. Even the citizens of Ukraine were not allowed to own pistols.
In short, the new head of the Interior Ministry is the man of the old minister and at the same time the new president of Ukraine, he claims. the current police code, but does not have a loop to work with volunteer battalions and other patriotic initiatives.
Arsen Avakov in the current configuration of the Ukrainian government was the guardian of public security against “betrayal” – he always publicly opposed any crossing of the “red lines” in the Donbass war, proposed the conduct of local military operations to take control of individual cities of self-proclaimed republics and traveled. with Vladimír Zelenský at all major summits on the war. It is Avakov who is credited with teaching the Ukrainian president a lesson in eliminating illiteracy on the plane that led the Ukrainian delegation to the Paris summit in December 2019. Then Zelensky suddenly stopped pledging the promise of direct talks with the rebel republics of Donbas.
Now a person from the Zeleny team can come to the leadership of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, who will not touch the people and the system of former Minister Avakov. And Arsen Avakov will no longer interfere in the implementation of peace initiatives by the Ukrainian president within his own understanding of the war in the East. In short, Volodymyr Zelenskyy got rid of the insurance policy.