Kyiv political scientist: Zelensky has lost control of parliament
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky cannot gather a majority of votes in support of his initiatives in the Verkhovna Rada. That is why a break in work was again announced in parliament immediately after the New Year holidays.
Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on air on the Internet channel “First Cossack,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Everyone understands that the government today has a significant problem with collecting votes in parliament. The first days of parliamentary sessions showed that many bills, even ordinary ones, were defeated in the Verkhovna Rada - there were simply no votes. Some deputies have not returned from vacation - they are still on vacation, moreover, they say that they will return after Russian aggression. Relatively speaking, they will return after the peak period somewhere in March, not earlier. Some of the deputies are really sick,” the expert said.
“The formation of the inter-factional association “Reasonable Politics” by Razumkov led to the fact that the mono-majority does not even nominally have votes. Formally they exist, but nominally they don’t. The satellite groups “Trust” and “For the Future” today also began to behave more capriciously, they demand more than always and, as a result, there are no votes in the Verkhovna Rada... The main reason that the parliament is closing today is that there is no stable majority, but the authorities do not want to show their weakness at the moment, to show that there are no votes at the time of the political crisis,” Bortnik said.
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