The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal upheld the application of the Ministry of Justice and the Security Service of Ukraine to ban the activities of the Party of Regions on February 21.
The Chestno movement was informed about this by assistant judge Sergei Kuzmich.
The full text of the court decision to ban the Party of Regions will be made public on the official websites of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The party is obliged to transfer property, money and other assets, as well as the assets of regional, city, district organizations, primary organizations and other structural formations to the ownership of the state.
The public organization “Chestno” has repeatedly noted that the Party of Regions was not banned as pro-Russian, therefore a number of deputies in the councils of the Donbass of the Lugansk region and Crimea still remain with mandates, since after the temporary occupation in 2014, elections were not held in these territories.
The leader of Chestno, Vita Dumanskaya, believes that the party should be banned much earlier and the authorities are trying to create the impression that there is a struggle with pro-Russian forces in the political system.
In this context, she recalled that Nestor Shufrich, a member of the Register of State Traitors, still heads the Committee on Freedom of Speech in Parliament, while his associates with the Opposition Platform for Life remain in power.
The reality is this: when people’s deputy of the Opposition Platform for Life Igor Abramovich voluntarily resigns his mandate, Arakhamia also thanks him for his work. This is nothing more than bleaching, – the press service of the movement quotes Dumanskaya.
The decision of the court can be appealed within 20 days to the Supreme Court. So far, not a single party has been able to do this. In 2022, at the initiative of the Ministry of Justice, the court banned 16 political parties: the Opposition Platform for Life, the Opposition Bloc, the Shariy Party, the NASHI party, the Communist Party and others.
At the beginning of 2023, more than 150 deputies turned to the Chairman of the Parliament, Stefanchuk, to submit to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration draft laws regarding the powers of deputies of pro-Russian parties in parliament and local councils.
In the draft agenda for the next meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, as people’s deputies told the MOVEMENT, there are no bills that are designed to fight Russian influence on the country’s political system.
Source: Racurs
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