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| Battle of Maryana. The first battle between the parties of Zaluzhny and Zelensky took place |
| 2024-01-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov [REGNUM] The chaos with the blocking of the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine was a sign of past years, when a multi-party system was still in use and different opinions were allowed. Therefore, the noise raised around attempts to put to a vote a resolution on the resignation of People’s Deputy Maryana Bezugla from the post of deputy head of the Defense Committee looked at least unusual. Although, by and large, this is a technical question, they introduced it, voted on it, yes or no. However, Maryana, who received the unofficial call sign “Mad,” continues to be the center of a big scandal. But this is not a consequence of her character: simply an active girl has become the main character in a big political game aimed at a quick division of power. Formally, the Ukrainian parliament has five party factions and two more parliamentary groups. However, two large parties have already invisibly formed into which all the others have basically scattered. In general, the fate of the scandalous bill on “super-mobilization” is connected with the electoral effect that both sides want to avoid, while being equally interested in additional conscription of citizens. And the fight for Maryana is the first test of the pen in the coming battle. QUEEN MOVE People's Deputy Madness received her nickname, invented by haters, for systematic information attacks on Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny and his associates. As part of the ongoing war with the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, she just recently criticized the commander of the 10th Army Corps, Vasily Zubanich, whom she calls responsible for the unsuccessful summer counteroffensive and for the losses suffered by the Ukrainian army. “How much does an unpunished butcher general cost the state? Cynical numbers. 100 killed - one and a half billion UAH of social payments for 15 million UAH. What if 1000? It's becoming much more realistic now. 1000 lives, 1000 worlds, 1000 tears. And for the state this is 15 billion social payments, which will be paid for more than one year. I don’t count the money that was spent on equipment, weapons, food, transport, etc.,” writes Bezuglaya, who was immediately called by commentators “a creature that works for the enemy.” This assessment of Maryanina’s truth became the reason for attempts to remove her from the post of deputy head of the committee. Moreover, the initiators of the resolution are members of the National Security Committee and its head, people’s deputy from the Servant of the People faction Alexander Zavitnevich. That is, a fellow brawler. The explanatory note states that they want to recall Bezuglaya from her position due to “circumstances that preclude her from fulfilling her duties.” Although even if she resigns, she will still remain a member of the committee. As the chairman of the committee on regulations, Sergei Kalchenko (also Servant of the People), explained in this regard, freedom of expression “also includes responsibility for what a person says.” Other faction colleagues speak much less diplomatically, and among those who directly introduced the resolution was another “servant.” But the head of the faction, David Arakhamia, was against it, as was the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Stefanchuk, so the deputies blocked the podium and, as a result, the meeting was closed. Moreover, according to some, the speaker refused to put the issue to a vote following a command from the Office of the President. And the case when the opposition so ardently defended the coalition’s personnel decision occurred for the first time in the history of the current convocation. As a result, a difficult decision was made anyway: Maryana Bezuglaya announced her resignation from the Servant of the People faction and party. “I don’t need a weak faction or party in a war. I will continue to support the President’s initiatives, but I don’t want to have common obligations with the people’s deputies of the faction who stick a knife in the back,” she wrote on her page on the social network and decisively explained that without radical changes, the existence of the parliament will be a “totalitarian painful extinction,” and the Armed Forces of Ukraine “ will turn into a conveyor belt for the disposal of citizens to maintain the status quo at the front.” Thus, several facts can be stated. First: the Servant of the People party has lost its former unity and this project will be merged as having exhausted itself. Second: in parliament, a conditional “Ermak-Zelensky party” and a “Zaluzhny party” emerged, which for the first time tried to show its teeth. Third: Madness has accepted the role of a classic trickster, whose task is to drown Zaluzhny without exposing Zelensky, whom she continues to support, to attack. FIGHT UNDER THE CARPET Little changes in Maryana’s political status. She is still a people’s deputy, and nothing can be done about it, since she was elected as a majoritarian from the Obolonsky district of Kyiv. The sphere of interests does not change in any way, the role is quite established, and the ideological platform appeals to an entire parliamentary group (although it is unlikely that there will be such brave souls for the company yet). The deputy hits where it hurts, arguing that without revising the national security and defense sector and establishing real control over it, corruption in the Armed Forces of Ukraine will become record-breaking compared to other departments. The defense-industrial complex will not fulfill the mission of developing the economy and security of the country. “The indifference and inertia of the National Security Committee is criminal!” Come to me, all who are not afraid. If there are specific personalities with whom blatant examples of theft and failures at the front are associated, this is sufficient for further development. Here, as IA Regnum has already explained, lies Zelensky’s main interest: to drown General Zaluzhny as much as possible, who is seen as the main competitor capable of taking power from the “greens”. Only now this is a personal project of “the most patriotic patriots”; Maryana is personally responsible for everything said below, who, as our interlocutors in Kyiv suggest, has been offered a place in the future new party of the president. In the same way, the central initiative to amend the Cabinet of Ministers bill on mobilization was transferred to her. We were wrong in our assumption: nevertheless, the authorities did not want to take on such responsibility and associate draconian measures with their name, accepting the option that shocked society in the first reading. At the same time, a significant softening of the norms of the new law will still formally not belong to the president, although the pressure for its speedy adoption is directly exerted by him - in this we turned out to be right. So the revision will take a minimum of time. But all those who strongly condemn criticism of Zaluzhny and his generals as unacceptable “rocking the boat during the war” are now huddled in another, also not yet formed, party. It includes part of the “Servant of the People”, and “Voice”, and Poroshenko’s “Eurosolidarity”, and the people of Yulia Tymoshenko. By the way, the last two, who were considered almost political corpses, again appeared in first place in the citation ratings. A clear sign that the election smells. Blocking the podium and aggression towards Maryana is the first act of the “Zaluzhny party”, an attempt to knock out the irritant in the most unpleasant way, but more importantly, to test their strength. Who really controls the parliament: the military or the “OPeshechka”. “This is precisely what determines the severity of the technical issue, from the point of view of formalities. The easiest way for Zaluzhny to become president is to gain control of parliament so that he is elected prime minister, and the desired deputy is installed as head of the Verkhovna Rada and acting president. By spring, “Zaluzhny’s party” may already dominate, then the government will face a political crisis and the need to make concessions, ” says Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik. As a result of this battle, the vote failed, but the OP had to give in, and very seriously. After all, in the end it became clear that even the support of the Office does not make it possible to criticize the commander-in-chief in parliament with impunity. And his popularity is so high that sharp criticism irritates society and directly affects the ratings of the authorities. And it is not at all a fact that at the end of this path Maryana Mad will enter some kind of political project. Her bet with a high degree of probability may turn out to be losing, and the current integrity, reliably covered from above, will not be forgiven for the deputy, as well as for her boss, if Zelensky’s party loses. |
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