“Votes” complain that Zelensky doesn’t care about them
Historically, Ukrainians have developed a disdainful attitude towards any authority.
The head of the Golos parliamentary faction, former columnist for the Kyiv weekly Zerkalo Nedeli, Sergei Rakhmanin, spoke about this on the Chernivtsi Luch TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Ukraine is a country in which, unfortunately, there was no tradition of building a state, of its own statehood. It was a country torn into different pieces, in which each blacksmith was in different states, in different empires, where power changed. And people's attitude has always been hostile. At least negative. And due to the fact that the power was someone else’s, which was placed on you from above, it was yours and, accordingly, you got used to coexist with it,” the deputy said.
“This, in principle, is genetic and a certain time must pass in order for the government to be perceived as its own, but the government itself must do certain things in order to be perceived as its own.
Zelensky’s trust rating is falling more slowly than the trust rating of his political force, which in fact is the group of people he calls to the Verkhovna Rada. The reason is a biased attitude towards parliament. This has been in the making for years. This started back in the days of Kuchma, when the Verkhovna Rada was no less a corrupt government body. One Cabinet official, from the point of view of corruption risks, weighs half more than half of the Verkhovna Rada. I say this with absolute authority, I knew this when I was a journalist, not a deputy,” says Rakhmanin.
According to him, the Verkhovna Rada is a very convenient target for beating; it is closer and more understandable to the population than was often used in the government.
“Therefore, criticism of the Verkhovna Rada was a technique that all presidents used. Everything, because every president, even when he relied on a certain majority in the Verkhovna Rada, he perceived as an alternative, as the center of a different agenda. Therefore, all presidents stimulated criticism of the authorities.
And Vladimir Zelensky especially joined this, because from the first day he treated the Verkhovna Rada so impudently and incorrectly that this caused indignation even among the people he brought to parliament. When he cut out the tasks, when he told them what they were obliged to do, what he would do with those who would work poorly,” the deputy explained.
“I always recommended to him, and from the platform of the Verkhovna Rada, I am glad that there is such a useful book as the Constitution. Everything is explained there even for those people who do not know politics very deeply. It says who is responsible for what. But the president is definitely not the person who sets tasks for the Verkhovna Rada. Even his own faction, which he considers his own. She is not his property. These are the deputies for whom people voted. The highest legislative body is a separate body of power, and it can give tasks only in its office or in its family,” added Rakhmanin.
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