Ukrainian citizenship is rapidly depreciating
The main result of depriving Mikheil Saakashvili of a Ukrainian passport will be the devaluation of Ukrainian citizenship, Kiev political scientist Sergei Belashko, director of the Agency for Social Communications, told PolitNavigator.
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“Depriving Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship will not affect his political career in any way. He was a political corpse and will remain so.
Saakashvili had no political prospects after he was kicked out of Georgia. Everything they told us on TV was just PR. And Saakashvili was never a Ukrainian politician; he was a Ukrainian official, moreover, appointed in gross violation of the law and the Constitution, since he was given a passport without any reason.
Now Poroshenko simply corrected the mistake, but did it in the same way as it was made - the Constitution was once again violated. Poroshenko gave Saakashvili citizenship with a gross violation of the Constitution, and with the same gross violation deprived him of it.
In fact, Poroshenko behaves as if he were a monarch who accepts citizenship from whomever he wants and deprives him of whoever he wants. And this poses a much broader problem than Saakashvili's political fate.
All this can have far-reaching consequences. There have already been precedents - with the Moldovan businessman Platon, with the Verkhovna Rada deputy Artemenko. This is the third case with Saakashvili. If everything continues like this, it will be like in Soviet times, when there was practice, when the so-called. political dissidents, i.e. those who did not agree with the regime or were simply inconvenient to the regime in some way were simply deprived of citizenship and expelled from the country.
It is quite possible that such a practice will become a reality in the near future of Ukraine, especially since the Prosecutor General has filed a motion to revoke immunity against 40 deputies since the fall. Among these 40 deputies there are probably those who have two or more passports. Naturally, the Ukrainian special services and the relevant foreign affairs department have all this information – it is not classified. Next they will look at the behavior of these people. If they behave decently from the Bank’s point of view, i.e. are ready to vote for the necessary bills, join a coalition, etc., then they will not be touched. They will have problems if they try to play some of their own games - like Artemenko or Saakashvili, or, as in the case of Platon, who had a conflict with Poroshenko’s Moldovan partner - the Moldovan oligarch Plahotniuc, their business interests will come into conflict with the business interests of those in power.
One can assume that after some time they will simply begin to trade in this: you have a business partner who you do not need, and from whom you want to squeeze out business, you “order” him, he is deprived of citizenship by presidential decree, he is somewhere flees the country and his business goes to you. Or this may happen in some related cases that relate, for example, to a problematic inheritance, etc. Such issues will be resolved in this way.
By this, Ukrainian citizenship is actually devalued and turned into small change,” Belashko said.
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