A compact legislative provocation—that’s how “servant of the people” Maryana Bezugla called her initiative to impose life imprisonment for misappropriation of state functions.
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She and her colleague Galina Tretyakova registered a bill on life imprisonment with confiscation for misappropriation of government functions.
It’s so cute how a compact legislative provocation works) Tomorrow I can register the abolition of Russia,” Bezugla noted on her Facebook page.
She called the bill “a precedent for appeal to history and a test of political debate,” an “intellectual exercise” and said it was “derived from America’s Logan Act,” which has been in effect in the United States since 1799. It criminalizes negotiations by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments in discussions with the United States.
In Ukraine, according to Bezugla, an analogue of the Logan Act could be applied in the event of a trip of OPZZh deputies to Russia in 2020 to discuss “the creation of a parliamentary dimension of the Normandy format.”
Gal, recall that f… y, – this is what another “servant of the people” Yaremenko advised his colleague Tretyakova, who, together with Bezugla, proposed the scandalous bill.
Galya, so you are proposing to punish not for encroachment on the constitutional functions of the president or other officials (for not only the president can act on behalf of the state). You propose to punish for representing Ukraine at international events. The Olympics is an international event. Exhibitions, symposiums – international events. International organizations (created by governments) also hold events where they invite anyone to “represent their countries.” At the same time, you don’t even determine that the “appropriators” must have criminal intent,” Yaremenko wrote in the comments to Tretyakova’s post on Facebook.
He added: the authors do not explain that there should be harm to public or state interests and what exactly.
Galya, I respect you. Recall this sh… y,” Yaremenko noted in the comments to Tretyakova’s Facebook post.
Another colleague of the deputies from the SN, Vitaly Bezgin, called the document “wild”.
The document proposes to supplement the Criminal Code with Article 1113 in the following wording:
Assignment by a citizen of state functions, in particular representing Ukraine at international events, before authorized persons or agents of foreign states, representatives of international organizations, without being granted authority to do so, is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 10 to 12 years.
Chairman of the Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning Bezgin called on Tretyakova to withdraw the bill.
Ban Ukrainian citizens from representing Ukraine at international events, and also threaten them with imprisonment? We need a healthy consolidation of all branches of government and civil society in the international arena in order to provide worthy diplomatic resistance to the aggressor! One voice policy is not achieved through prohibitions! – Bezgin noted.
In response, Tretyakova referred to the Constitution of Ukraine and the UN Convention on Special Missions, according to which the president, prime minister and head of the Foreign Ministry must represent the country on all matters of foreign relations.
“Rakurs” wrote that people’s deputies from the “Servant of the People” Bezugla and Tretyakov registered a bill on criminal liability “for the appropriation of state functions.” During war they propose to punish with 15 years or life.
Source: Racurs
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