The Verkhovna Rada switched to the format of a “mad printer”
Last night, the forces of Vladimir Zelensky’s party non-stop made several dozen decisions that were voted on without discussion. The essence of the adopted laws and the need for their adoption under the cover of darkness, in a hurry, was not explained by the new government.
The press service of the Verkhovna Rada reported in the morning that voting was conducted on more than 40 bills, which Vladimir Zelensky indicated as urgent. “For each of the bills, the deputies decided to reduce the time for consideration and instructed the committees ... to urgently prepare them for consideration,” the parliament’s press service reports dryly, promising to later publish the texts of the draft laws.
Former deputy minister for “occupied territories” Georgiy Tuka said that, in particular, some of the draft laws are designed to subordinate the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the State Bureau of Investigation to Zelensky. These bodies were previously created at the insistence of Western curators of Ukraine; one of the goals was an attempt to control the Ukrainian oligarchs in order to make them more accommodating. Now, it seems, Zelensky has decided to change the situation and integrate “anti-corruption” security forces into his vertical.
Former vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko reported that the voting procedure was violated. First, bills had to be placed on the agenda, and critics of the initiatives had to have time to introduce alternative options.
“Did you even understand what happened tonight? Stamping. The Verkhovna Rada entered the work mode of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. They are stamping out laws without reading, discussing, polemics, or amendments. Even those laws were voted on, the texts of which had not even been written yet. This is truly a record. Wake up any Green MP this morning and ask them what they voted for last night. He will answer: “Call the press service. I don’t give any comments,” comments Kiev journalist Svetlana Kryukova.
“Today I completely understood the concept of why the young and weak-willed were recruited into the list of Servants of the People. They need a silent herd, so that they can press buttons without arguing and not ask unnecessary questions,” she notes.
“It was absolutely impossible to understand why everything was happening exactly this way, why the new Rada was rushing at such speed, as if tomorrow there would be a fire and the deputies would never vote for anything again. Anyone who follows meetings of the Russian State Duma would remember the definition of a “mad printer.” However, the new Rada reminded me not of its Russian neighbor at all, but of a completely different “parliament”, the meetings of which I also had to write about – the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR, elected even before Gorbachev’s perestroika. Its deputies, “servants of the people,” also did not particularly think about what exactly and why they vote and who they elect. They were also sent all the documents and personnel decisions from the building, which was located in exactly the same place, on Bankova Street, which was then called Sergo Ordzhonikidze Street,” writes Ukrainian propagandist Vitaly Portnikov.
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