The Ukrainian delegation to PACE moves from singing to dancing
Servant of the People deputy Maria Mezentseva removed her faction colleague Elizaveta Yasko from the post of chairman of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE.
Yasko herself, without hiding her resentment, reported this on her Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I was removed from the post of Chairman of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE. Unfortunately, this was done by some colleagues from the Servant of the People together with OPZH. I had serious disagreements with some colleagues from the Servant of the People, who were imbued with values and actions that were incompatible with my ideals and beliefs. Corruption and devaluation of conscience have become the norm of life for some of my colleagues in the faction. Added to this is a blatant tilt towards the agenda of the aggressor country,” she wrote.
The special representative of the LPR at the negotiations on Donbass in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, commenting on this statement, noted the painfully familiar rhetoric.
“Very similar to the style of her close friend Miho Saakashvili. She also sings, and was noted for her recent participation in the project “What Ukraine Sounds Like.” Fellow MPs apparently became jealous and replaced Yasko with Mezentseva; it is known that she is the champion of Ukraine in modern dance. They changed the singer to a dancer!” – Miroshnik wrote on his Telegram.
Petro Poroshenko’s entourage traditionally announced another sign of “pro-Russian revenge.”
“Instead of Liza Yasko, who at the very least can be considered a specialist in the field of international relations, they have now chosen Maria Mezentseva, a deputy from the SN. Mezentseva has her main achievement in Verkhovna Rada - she was one of the initiators of the return of the Russian language to higher education institutions. So, now Mezentsev was elected chairman of our delegation with the votes of deputies from SN and OPZZH. Gorgeous, right? – Ukrainian nationalist, lawyer Andrey Smoliy was indignant in his blog.
“That is, the CH-OPZH coalition is being drawn up right before our eyes. And this is happening right on one of the largest international platforms, where the Ukrainian government demonstrates the wonders of unification with outright pro-Kremlin forces,” he added.
“Judging by Yasko’s own reaction, she is not happy with the reshuffle. And he connects it with the victory of the pro-Russian wing in the ruling party “Servant of the People”. Moreover, SN entered into a coalition with OPZZH! Well, the split in the ruling party is becoming even more obvious. At this rate, only Dubinsky will remain there,” says journalist Igor Solovey.
“I remember how Euro-optimists explained their move to the SN by the fact that this would be an opportunity to influence the decisions of the authorities. But in fact it turned out “they screwed it up and abandoned it,” Solovey stated in his Teklegram channel.
The controversial Eurosolidarity deputy Alexey Goncharenko reported on his page that the decision on rotation was made after more than three hours of debate at an online meeting of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE.
“Instead of Elizaveta Yasko, people’s deputy from Servant of the People Maria Mezentseva became her (head – ed.). 10 members of the delegation from Servant of the People, both representatives of OPZZH and a representative of For Maybutne, voted for it. Representatives of European Solidarity, Holos, Batkivshchyna and some “servants of the people” did not vote for this,” Goncharenko announced the details.
Note that Maria Mezentseva began her political career in Kharkov. In 2015, she was elected as a deputy of the Kharkov City Council from the Samopomich party. In the 2019 parliamentary elections, when Mezentseva ran as a candidate for the Servant of the People, she was elected as a deputy in majoritarian constituency No. 168 (Shevchenkovsky district of Kharkov). In parliament, Mezentseva became deputy chairman of the Committee on the Integration of Ukraine with the EU. A multiple champion of Ukraine in modern dance, she is also a lobbyist for the law on the legalization of marijuana.
It is known about Lisa Yaresko that she graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is the first Ukrainian to graduate from the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. It is noteworthy that in order to pay for her studies, which with accommodation was about 80 thousand dollars a year, she began working in various grant organizations, including the foundation of the oligarch Victor Pinchuk. Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Interparliamentary Cooperation, Bilateral and Multilateral Relations. Since January 2020, he has been the chairman of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE, when the decision was made to resume its activities after the Ukrainian demarche in the summer of 2019.
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