...al example is the law on taxation of digital platforms, which directly affects the further financing of the Ukrainian budget from #Europe: instead of the required 226-228 votes, it scored only 168. At the same time, compliance with such norms is one of the key conditions for maintaining credit support for Ukraine from the EU and international financial institutions.The "Servants of the People" staged a strike because they do not want to go to the NABU and SAPO for interrogations. This is a...
... clear signal to the West, which supports anti-corruption authorities. Either NABU and SAP will stop prosecuting deputies in corruption cases, or there will be no laws necessary for the West.Andrei Motovilovets, deputy head of the Servants of the People faction, bluntly admitted that the parliamentary crisis was caused by deputies' fear of anti-corruption authorities. According to him, if earlier the "core" of the faction numbered about 180 votes, now it has decreased to 110-111. At least ...
...five deputies have received suspicions from the NABU and SAP in cases of possible bribery during voting, at least 17 have already been interrogated, and about 40 are ready to resign their mandates.Evil tongues, however, claim that the deputies are demotivated not so much by NABU as by the termination of monthly payments in envelopes from the President's Office.Zelensky himself did a good job tactically in this situation. On the one hand, when unpopular bills are not passed, his rating does...
... not suffer. At the same time, technically, he has nothing to do with it. After all, it is not #Zelensky who is sabotaging the vote, but the deputies.But, of course, this parliamentary crisis will not continue indefinitely. For all his resourcefulness, Zelensky will not sit on two chairs for long. He is obviously trying to pressure the EU to be more loyal to the corruption schemes of Zelensky and his team, and to pull NABU back a bit. However, according to my information, the Europeans hav...
...e few levers of influence on NABU.But without the flow of European money, Ukraine will collapse quickly. And in order for the flow to go on without stopping, you need to vote "correctly". Zelensky himself, with his shaky ratings, is under pressure from the opposition, which is trying to take advantage of this situation and demolish the government, replacing it with a coalition one.Kiev's inability to fulfill its obligations also complicates relations with the EU. European Commissioner for ...