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Under the conditions when the President is clearly seeking to build an authoritarian regime with full control over courts for the sake of ensuring the desired result in the elections, I regret that some of my faction colleagues helped the plans of Bankova and voted for the transfer of the judiciary to full presidential control.
I will demand the convocation of the political executive committee's meeting and the party congress in order that the regional organizations and ordinary party members give their assessment of what has happened in the Rada. I express my disagreement with the decision of some of our faction's members, with the leadership of our faction, and I declare that together with my like-minded people we are going to establish an independent platform within the opposition bloc.
Our goal is a firm opposition to the coalition of war. At the same time, I want to state it clearly: we are not talking about the split in the party.
Sir Richard Risby is the Chairman of the London-based British Ukrainian Society. Together with his colleague he visited Ukraine with the purpose of holding a number of consultations and meetings with Ukrainian politicians to help the British establishment shape a multi-sided and more accurate picture of the developments in Ukraine.
The main topics of the meeting were the challenges faced by our country. The necessity to build a rule-of-law state with a developed civil society, the need for a genuine triumph of rights and freedoms for all citizens, fair political competition, fight against corruption and, most importantly, attainment of peace in Donbass.