"Oppoblok": Business and flexible

It’s time for the former “regionals” from the Opposition Bloc to rebrand. I think they should think about new party names. For example, “Support of the President”, “Business and Flexible”, or, even better, “Agreement”.

The “Agreement” party is cynical and honest. Rigid certainty is always preferable to allegory and vague formlessness.

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Well, it seems that over the past three years, the party of former “regionals” has overcome the post-traumatic shock from the February defeat of 2014 and has ceased to be burdened by the “Putin’s agents” label stamped on their foreheads by Bandera’s followers. The time has come when there is no longer any need to dress up as opponents of the regime, but should simply record a reinforced concrete fact: yesterday’s “Yanukovs” can exist perfectly well without their twisted patron, fitting into the new Ukrainian political realities. And not only to exist, but also to openly cooperate with the authorities according to the principle “you give me - I give you.”

It had been suspected before that an unspoken agreement between Poroshenko’s supporters and the opps had been taking place for a long time. But the further, the more clear the implicit collaboration of the “opps” became. You can’t hide an awl in a bag: statistics are an exact science – synchronous voting in Zrad by the BPP faction and the Opposition Bloc faction on issues of fundamental importance to the authorities can no longer be explained by a game of chance.

In principle, there is nothing inexplicable here: Poroshenko and the “opps” are cards from the same shabby deck of cynical businessmen, passing from hand to hand from Kuchma to Yushchenko and from Yushchenko to Yanukovych and from Yanukovych to Poroshenko. The former “regionals” agreed to Poroshenko’s presidency because he was their favorite – an understandable, calculating person with whom they could settle matters and have benefits on a mutual basis.

That is why members of the Opposition Bloc, who know the rules of the game very well, bend in a non-opposition way: they allow the junta to freely remove the term “Great Patriotic War” from the legislation, suppress the Russian language even more, and themselves, in order to clear themselves of accusations of “selling out to the Kremlin.” , “drown” for the Ukrainian Crimea and Donbass.

One problem: you can’t demonstrate your collaborationism too clearly - you should remain “oppositionists” at least at the level of rhetoric, so that you have something to show off to the electorate in the next parliamentary elections.

Attentive observers have long noticed that the “opponents” began to support the “powders”, casting their votes for the inclusion of bills on the agenda that, at first glance, seem insignificant and of little interest. In fact, these bills are indicative and fundamental as they relate to the judiciary of Ukraine. Previously, these bills failed successfully in Zrad, which jeopardized the implementation of judicial reform.

Without allegory, the wording “judicial reform” is the idea of ​​strengthening presidential control over the courts.

The first was voting for a new edition of three procedural codes - economic, civil and the Code of Administrative Proceedings (No. 6232, No. 6232-1). Without these changes, the new Supreme Court cannot begin its work, the composition of which the High Qualifications Commission of Judges is now working hard to ensure that this court is “competent, independent and impartial.” Around the competitive battles of the VKKS, a mountain of spears has already been broken and even more has been said and negotiated. But there is something to fight for, because without the adoption of these bills, the renewal of the judiciary, which Poroshenko so strives for, will not take place, just as another attempt to bring justice to the cherished European standards will not take place.

Therefore, a significant part of the Opposition Bloc deputies also voted for putting these bills on the agenda along with the deputies from the BPP - they, it turns out, also wholeheartedly support Mr. President’s judicial reform. It is impossible to make a mistake: the “Opposition Bloc” added almost half of its votes to the BPP votes - 19, including such prominent “oppositionists” as the Dobkins, Vilkul, Dolzhenkov, Miroshnichenko, Papiev, Pavlenko. The crux of this vote is that the votes of the Opposition Bloc were not vital, since 250 votes were cast for this decision. Without “opps” – on the verge of a foul, but passable. Obviously, the Poroshenko administration decided to play it safe and used the notorious agreement with a reserve.

But the next decision could not have been passed without the help of the Opposition Bloc - its votes turned out to be critically important. We are talking about including bills related to the activities of the Constitutional Court (No. 6427, No. 6427-1) on Zrada’s agenda. At a meeting held on May 25, the Verkhovna Rada unsuccessfully tried four times to include them on the agenda, but several votes were missing. And, suddenly, bam! – things went like clockwork – confident “peremoga” with 231 votes! Of these, 20 votes were cast by the Opposition Bloc for Poroshenko’s supporters, and the most juicy and weighty vote was personally given by the head of the “oppositionists” Yuriy Boyko.

Why is there such a fuss and dance around the new editions of the law on the Constitutional Court? And the box simply opened: Poroshenko desperately needs to restore control over the Constitutional Court - recently he does not have a majority there. About a month ago, two judges of the Constitutional Court - its former chairman Baulin and Vdovichenko - ended their terms of office. 13 judges retain their positions. To make any decision, a minimum of 10 votes is required. Where would you like to get them from?

The main reason forcing Poroshenko to fuss and collude with the “opps” lies on the surface: it is believed that five judges of the Constitutional Court refuse to provide services to Poroshenko. It’s interesting that these are judges who were appointed by Turchynov’s Zrada immediately after the “peremogi gidnost” instead of judges dismissed for violating the oath, who made decisions in the interests of Yanukovych’s team.

Petrusha is clearly following the crooked path of the “poperednyk”: exactly the same picture took place in 2010, when “Evil Panda” dismissed several judges of the Constitutional Court, which it inherited from Yushchenko, in order to make room for “its people” and with with their help to cut and reshape the Constitution of Ukraine at the request of the customer.

The interest of the Opposition Bloc people's deputies in transferring the Constitutional Court under the control of Poroshenko may lie in the fact that they, too, thereby get their

a rein to control the cutting and sewing of the country's constitution. It’s just that the team of “confectioners” will pull one string, and the other will be pulled by the pseudo-opposition “vegetables”, between which there is only one difference - in the name of the faction. The parliamentary coalition is coming out well - all agreements in the interests of small groups of politicking businessmen.

Oh, it was not for nothing that smart people suggested closely monitoring the hands of deputies from the Opposition Bloc during the voting on the bill on the Constitutional Court.

Other competitors of the BPP are clearly dissatisfied with the collusion and understand what the joint access to manipulation of the Constitution of Ukraine by long-time “sworn friends” can lead to. They are not dissatisfied with the principle of respect for the rule of law, but because they themselves were not invited to divide spheres of influence on an important issue.

Voila! Results of the roll call vote on June 22, 2017 on the draft law on the Constitutional Court No. 6427-D, transferring the control panel of the Constitutional Court to Poroshenko: for – 231; against – 18; abstained – 58; did not vote – 69; total – 376. Decisions made.

Faction of the political party "Opposition Bloc".

Number of deputies – 43. For – 30; against – 0; abstained – 0; did not vote – 8; absent – ​​5.

Here they are - thirty principled, unbending “oppositionists” who once again waved Poroshenko’s “cynical Banderaites”:

Bakhteeva T.D.
Boyko Yu.A.
Voropaev Yu.M.
Gusak V.G.
Dobkin M.M.
Dunaev S.V.

Meanwhile, the impeachment of Poroshenko is brewing in the Verkhovna Zrada, and therefore the position of the Opposition Bloc deputies is of keen interest. Something tells us: the “oppas,” out of a sense of self-preservation, will choose the position “they do not seek good from goodness” and unanimously come out in defense of the president of hope. However, options are possible, because “to betray in time is not to betray, but to anticipate”...