In Ukraine they came up with the idea that a deputy has no obligations to voters
There should be no imperative mandate in Ukraine, and voters and party members should wait for the next elections to punish the deputy who betrayed his election promises.
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This opinion was expressed in an interview with the Kyiv magazine “Focus” by the Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine Andrei Magera, answering the question whether the procedure for recalling a deputy will help him take into account the opinion of the voter.
“I have always been and remain an opponent of the imperative mandate,” Magera emphasized. – The mandate must be free. This means that if a candidate wins the election, he has no obligations to voters and the party. Voters and the party may punish him in the next election if he betrayed them. Relatively speaking, if a deputy leaves the party and does something contrary to its interests, the party can expel her, but he will not lose his mandate. If a traitor MP wants to go to the next elections, the party will not accept him, and voters will not vote.”
It is worth noting that Ukrainian politicians often make promises during the election campaign that they do not keep. Thus, the Party of Regions promised “improvement today,” one of Oleg Lyashko’s election slogans was “I will return Crimea to Ukraine,” Petro Poroshenko assured that the war in Donbass would end in a few days, and in the ATO zone, Ukrainian soldiers would receive 1000 hryvnia in a day.
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