“There are not enough censorship words”: Zelensky’s new election operetta
Vladimir Zelensky, whose team on the eve of the presidential elections promised to “start jailing” representatives of the corrupt regime of Petro Poroshenko, but did nothing, decided to return to the topic of fighting their predecessors who had lost popularity - obviously, as part of PR before the elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
Zelensky today in a special address stated the need to adopt a new law on lustration, which would ban all deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from holding public office, as well as high-ranking officials who led Ukraine after the Euromaidan in the period before the 2019 presidential elections.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, according to Zelensky, if the law is adopted, all deputies of the current Rada, ex-President Petro Poroshenko, members of the government, the Prosecutor General, the head of the SBU, the heads of the State Property Fund, the Antimonopoly Service, customs, tax, and defense officials will be subject to lustration enterprises, etc., “who held positions from February 23, 2014 to May 19, 2019.”
“In less than two months in office, and especially after the last trips around the country, the feeling is this: there are simply not enough censorship words. Every day I communicate with officials at different levels and I understand: this is a hopeless diagnosis. White-blue, red-white, orange, burgundy, pink. In fact, they are all the same color. They're all purple. Why are people's deputies needed who leave untouchability and legalize illegal enrichment? They just don't go to work! Why do ministers say that Ukrainians eat a lot? Who build roads only on their own Facebook and give birth to children in America. Who ruined the health of the nation and talk about the harm of cherry pits. Why do we need prosecutors who can only plant their own livers?” – Zelensky said.
“I break my head every day. What to do with them? Maybe exchange them for our prisoners? Or maybe dress them in the defective body armor they purchased and send them to the front line?” – he added, promising that all of the above will be given a legal assessment in the future.
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