Dmitry Razumkov has become dangerous for the president
A mega scandal is about to break out in the Ukrainian parliament. The “Servants of the People,” the largest and most influential faction, are signing with the blessing of President Volodymyr Zelenský for the resignation of Council President Dmitry Razumkov. People from other parliamentary groups are even being “recruited”. For a lot of money. Some people are offered 100,000 greens for the vote. On this occasion, Razumkov officially turned to anti-corruption law enforcement agencies. The “secret quarrel” over the speaker chair marks the beginning of early presidential elections.
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Viktor Shlynchak, director of the Kiev Institute for World Politics, said: Zelensky was finally convinced that he would not be able to be re-elected for a second term until the next six months, during which time he would still be the sole leader of the evaluation. After the early elections of the head of state, it will be possible to restart the Verkhovna Rada.
According to recent sociological studies, Dmitry Razumkov is only 2% worse than Vladimir Zelensky at 32%. The speaker's anti-rating is significantly lower than the president's.
On Friday, the parliamentary monopoly moved in full force to the resort of Truskavets. People's choices settled in the expensive 5-star Hotel Rixos, owned by the richest Ukrainian, Rinat Akhmetov. As the “servants …” assure themselves, everyone pays for their accommodation, meals and SPA procedures from their own pockets. Given the fact that the aforementioned Akhmetov and a number of oligarchs give deputies modest envelopes under the “twenty-thirty-fifty” scheme, it is not at all problematic for any of them to pay the rest. Who didn't understand: $ 20,000 a month is caused by “ranks” (those who attend plenary disciplines vote “as they should”). “Thirty” goes to those who are allowed to speak on television, but the head of the faction, David Arahamia, the leaders and first deputies of the heads of parliamentary committees will receive fifty greens.
This time, as promised by Arahamia, the deputies will not be busy teaching the basics of parliamentarism (as was the case shortly after joining the Verkhovna Rada in 2019), but will discuss the fate of the country.
Unofficially, the sources informed the “MC” about the upcoming development of a model of behavior for each of the microgroups of the “Servants of the People” faction, which are under the influence of various oligarchs. At the same time, it will be possible to identify “weak links”. So the least reliable party party guides.
At present, the CH faction does not look quite like a supermonolithic team, as at the beginning. Along the conventional “edges” it contains clearly expressed “patriotic forces” and no less recognizable “pro-Kremlin representatives”. The rest of the deputies have long been “picked up” by large and not very large “bags of money”.
However, the topic of Razumkov's resignation will not be forgotten either. Before leaving for Truskavets, the leader of the Arakhamie faction received signature lists in Rad's apparatus for the early removal of the speaker. Who annoyed the “Servant of the People” and the head of state that he did not intend to sign the law on the oligarchs. He cites a number of conflicting changes to the adopted law as a reason. For example, according to one of the amendments, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption will draw up a list of oligarchs. This seemingly “insignificant trifle” strikes out the whole text of the law in one breath. In the end, it was written with the expectations of the NSDC (National Security and Defense Council under the country's president). The persons in the Security Council were personally selected by Vladimír Zelenský. However, the choice for the National Agency was different. That is, not according to the criteria of personal loyalty to the president. Naturally, Razumkov did not sign the clearly contradictory text of the already voted bill.
He described the second and no less important reason for not submitting the already voted document for signing to Zelenský Razumkov as a gross procedural violation in the adoption of the scandalous law. Specifically: a real refusal to discuss it in the Chamber. “There is one country in which the parliament is not a place for discussion,” said a spokesman for the Verkhovna Rada of one of the former leaders of the Russian State Duma. “If we do not want to go the way of this country, we must give each member of the Council the opportunity to take part in the discussion of the bill.” 25 February 2010 at the announcement of the inaugural address in the Council Chamber. Under Viktor Fedorovich, Dmitry Razumkov was the leader of the youth wing of the Party of Regions.
The self-confident actions of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada damaged Zelenský's pride so much that the President of Ukraine ordered by all means to gather the necessary number of deputies to remove Razumkov from the post of spokesman. Given that Dmitry Alexandrovich was elected to the Council on the party list (under number 1!), The politician after the “last supper” Truskavets threatens not only to lose the post of speaker, but also part of the mandate of the People's Representative of Ukraine.
In order to prevent the replacement of Razumek's obedient Stefančuk, deputies from the “Opposition Platform – for Life” faction began urgent negotiations with the “Devoted Servants of the People” factions, which are not trade unions. The result was to be “group political suicide” in the form of a collective rejection of deputy seats. According to MK sources, former President Petro Poroshenko did not support the idea of early parliamentary elections. His “European Solidarity” faction considered the “OLSZ” plan premature.
On Friday, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Dmitry Razumkov, asked on the popular TV show Savik Shuster: “Why aren't you in Truskavets now, but here with us? “It turned out that the man who literally” put on his shoulders “the whole election campaign of Zelenský in 2019, decided not to invite to training at the hotel Rinata Akhmetov.” … although many of those who gathered there at the beginning of the trip (ie election campaign of Vladimír Zelenský), they were not even close to us at all … “Razumkov added.