Vidrodymo movement calls for snap parliamentary election
KYIV. Jan 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Vidrodymo, or Vidrodzhennya (Revival) Ukrainy movement calls for an early election to Ukraine’s parliament and will register a corresponding electronic petition on the president’s official website.
“The All-Ukrainian Association Vidrodzhennya Ukrainy is calling for early parliamentary elections and is to begin respective preparations across the country … We will also register an e-petition to the president demanding the reset of the authorities and are about to launch a campaign in its support,” Chairman of the Vidrodymo party’s Kyiv branch Oleksiy Stanchevsky announced in an official statement at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.
The results of 2015 showed that the economic situation in the country had deteriorated, as the government and the Verkhovna Rada had been talking a lot about the need for change, but only the illusion of the reform process has been created, Stanchevsky said.
Political expert and Director of the Institute of Problems of Radicalism Kostiantyn Dykan, who was also present at the press conference, said in turn that the snap elections would do no harm.
“It is necessary to reshuffle people’s deputies and parties represented in parliament as often as possible in order to keep the stability of the parliamentary democratic system and its succession,” Dykan said.
In his words, any initiative that seeks to end the existing political crisis should be viewed as positive.
“I believe that Vidrodymo’s initiative is worth being implemented,” he added.
He forecasts that in case of the early parliamentary elections, there will be new people, and the size of some parliamentary factions will decrease. “Should the elections to the Verkhovna Rada take place, you won’t see that big faction People’s Front, and hardly will there be half of the current Petro Poroshenko Bloc – I’m not saying that the latter will be smaller in size, but there will be new people, as different principles of the formation of the party lists will be applied,” he explained.
According to him, most of the incumbent lawmakers are well aware that they will not be elected and therefore they are against the snap elections, referring to huge costs on the election and threatening that their place in parliament will be taken by Opposition Bloc members.