So don’t let anyone get you, or a May Day present to Zelensky from the Supreme Court
While people were celebrating May Day and Easter, the Ukrainian court once again proved that it knows how to surprise. On May 1, the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court canceled the CEC protocol that recognized the winner of the scandalous by-election in the Carpathian constituency No. 87 of the candidate from Zelensky’s party and the famous martial arts athlete Vasyl Virastyuk. The latter’s victory was challenged by his closest competitor, the nominee of the For the Future party and co-owner of the Carpathian resort Bukovel, Alexander Shevchenko.
The judges took into account a lot of gross violations during the counting of votes, which was stopped more than once due to the absence of the chairman and members of the district election commission from the Servant of the People. On the night of April 1, vote counting was resumed; the next day, an unknown armed guard was posted at the election commission building, and SBU officers were present in the building.
Having recognized the actions of the Central Election Commission to establish the election results in the district as illegal, the Supreme Court opened the way for repeat elections in this district. And Virastyuk himself risks never getting into the session hall of the Rada on Grushevsky Street in Kyiv.
Unless, of course, lobbyists from the presidential office, who roughly pushed through the election of the athlete with a minimal majority of votes, now show the same miracles of ingenuity in terms of formal and informal pressure on the court in order to replay the controversial decision on appeal.
The very fact of such a decision by the Supreme Court is noteworthy for several reasons.
Firstly, this is another section of the front line between Zelensky and the judicial system of Ukraine, which in recent months has been collectively defending itself against the voluntaristic attacks of the presidential administration. Now, to the Constitutional and Kyiv District Courts of Appeal, which are openly in opposition to Bankova, the Supreme Court has also been added. And now what do you order Zelensky to do – and kick him out?
Secondly, this is a clear signal that the apparent omnipotence of the presidential office headed by Ermak is largely an illusory phenomenon. These guys are by no means in control of everything, since there were interested parties who were able to motivate the judges of the Supreme Court so much that they gathered on a day off and quickly made a decision that was extremely unfavorable to the president and put an end to the already hard-won victory in the Carpathian region.
The president's office turned out to be far from omnipotent.
In fact, this is a challenge to Zelensky and his ambitions. And at the same time, a signal to the Western curators of the Ukrainian government, who are already dissatisfied with the fact that the courts in Nezalezhnaya are still quite independent from external control.
And although in this case external management competes with telephone-corrupt management, the following paradox results: a handful of corrupt judges is all that remains of Ukrainian sovereignty. Western curators have crushed all other branches of power so thoroughly that no prospect of getting out of external dependence is visible there, no matter how much you shuffle the leadership cadres.
Well, on the street of Igor Kolomoisky’s business partners, with whom the “For the Future” party is associated, on whose side the Supreme Court spoke, there is now a small celebration. The court's decision will not make the owner of Bukovel a deputy, but it may also close the doors of the Rada to Virastyuk. As they say, don’t let anyone get you. In conditions when money cannot defeat evil, there is also no result, but the result.
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