The Crimean vice speaker explained why he did not support the referendum on reunification with Russia
A native of the Volyn region, Vice-Speaker of the Crimean Parliament Efim Fiks, at a press conference in Simferopol, told why in the early 1990s he was among the Crimean deputies who did not support the decision to hold a referendum on the reunification of the republic with Russia, as Yuri Meshkov’s associates demanded even before his election to the post of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Fix emphasized that he did not vote for the referendum in parliament because a large number of signatures for holding a referendum allegedly turned out to be fake.
“The events of 92 are well-known events. I know, and we remember, why these signatures were collected. By the way, I was on the working group to check these signatures - a lot of signatures did not comply with the regulations on collecting signatures. But these are some formal things.
Being a politician, a deputy, is such a responsible thing that every action, yes, today speaking, a deputy has the right to do everything in the hall - to speak, to speak, to vote, not to vote. But behind all this, in my opinion, there is a huge political responsibility to Crimea, to the Crimeans. At that moment in 92, before the state that we were...
And it would be possible to make a decision, well, let’s go to a referendum, the referendum that the RDK demanded and so on. But let us remember, we adopted the Constitution. Among other things, on May 5 we adopted a very important document - the Declaration of State Independence of the Republic of Crimea.
By doing this, we forced the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, to turn their face to Crimea and understand that we need to take this matter more seriously, and not the way they thought...
Position: “Let’s hold a referendum” - yes, but for what? At that time, for what? And we were confident that we would hold a referendum, get the result that we needed, and then what?
By the way, the correctness of our position and my personal position is that I voted to freeze the referendum - after all, when Meshkov became president and out of 99 deputies, 67 deputies of the Russia bloc were elected, and why didn’t they make a decision and unfreeze referendum?
Well, if we held a referendum, we would immediately run. It was just politicking, it was a political game in order to achieve some of their goals, for which they did not understand what to do next. Well, they held a referendum that Crimea is an independent state or what? Or where to Crimea, to Russia. Or Crimea, where to Africa?” – said Fix.
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