Symonenko went against the will of the Kremlin and appeared in the Verkhovna Rada for the first time after the attacks by Maidan supporters
Kyiv, March 27 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Today, the head of the Communist Party Petro Symonenko appeared in the Verkhovna Rada for the first time in recent weeks. Before that, he said that he would come to parliament only after he received security guarantees.
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To be fair, it is worth noting that Simonenko had reasons to fear for his safety. They tried to burn down his cottage near Kyiv. And on February 22, at the exit from parliament, several people’s deputies from the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Party of Regions suffered at the hands of angry Maidan supporters.
Symonenko arrived in the Rada a day after the congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which took place in Donetsk.
It is difficult to say whether Pyotr Symonenko received guarantees of immunity from the new government or decided that passions had subsided somewhat. But, be that as it may, the party was faced with disaster. All regional offices in Western Ukraine and partly in the Center were destroyed, sources tell Navigator. In Kyiv, one of the Maidan hundreds, associated with the VO "Svoboda", seized and continues to hold the central office of the Communist Party of Ukraine on the street. Borisoglebskaya, and in parliament there are periodically voices about banning communist ideology.
But the problem is not only that the Communist Party of Ukraine turned out to be unwilling to act in the new realities and was unable to organize at least minimal resistance to its political opponents. According to Navigator, the party began to experience serious financial difficulties.
Thus, delegates traveled to the congress in Donetsk at their own expense, whereas previously the travel was always paid for by the central office. In fact, party media stopped receiving funding. Not everyone in the Communist Party of Ukraine was satisfied with the nomination of Symonenko as a presidential candidate. There was no heated discussion on this matter at the congress, but, nevertheless, opinions were voiced about the need to bring new faces to the fore.
There is another interesting nuance. According to the agency's source, Moscow did not recommend the Communist Party of Ukraine to nominate its candidacy for the upcoming elections, since Russia is not going to recognize the presidential campaign scheduled for May 25. This is unlikely to worsen relations between the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Kremlin, for which the search for a more or less influential political force close to Russia in Ukraine is becoming a problem. At the same time, according to the source, the desire of the Communist Party of Ukraine to go to the polls may become an obstacle to finding an investor associated with the Kremlin and ready to invest in such a project, which, judging by the recent rhetoric, the leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine hopes for.
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