Central Election Commission Secretary Tatyana Lukash denied registration to all candidates from the Volya party, the authors of the law on lustration of officials.
"When one candidate isn't registered in an election, it's probably a coincidence. When several aren't registered, it's a trend. When candidates from an entire party aren't registered, it's repression."
Twenty-one candidates for people's deputies of Ukraine in single-member constituencies, nominated by the Volya Political Party, were denied registration.
The ban was initiated by the sister of Party of Regions member Elena Lukash (who is currently wanted by the police), Central Election Commission Secretary Tatyana Lukash, who responded in her own way to the names listed under Law No. 4359 "On the Purification of Power," which was recently passed in the Verkhovna Rada after much fuss and timidity.
In general, an unfounded ban on a party's participation in elections is a futile undertaking. Repression is always met with fierce resistance. The remnants of the Party of Regions should have learned this long ago.
But they didn't learn. So, friends, on Wednesday at 10:00, September 24th, everyone head to the Central Election Commission. Shall we show the Central Election Commission an early "lustration"?
Sergey Taran, political scientist, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Center for Sociological and Political Research "Sociovimir", Director of the International Institute of Democracies (Ukraine)
P.S. As is known, the Secretary of the Central Election Commission (the second person in terms of authority and influence in the Central Election Commission) Tatyana Lukash is the sister of Elena Lukash, the former deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Viktor Yanukovych and the former Minister of Justice.
The same Olena Lukash, who was the ideologist and ardent supporter of the harsh dispersal of the Maidan using special forces from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and the army (for details, see the Prosecutor General's Office publication, which revealed the organization of the murders on the Maidan in February). Olena Lukash was also the de facto co-author and lobbyist of all the repressive laws aimed at restricting civil rights and freedom of speech in Ukraine, submitted to the Rada during Yanukovych's presidency in the interests of the Russian Federation.
Elena Lukash's husband, Grigoriy Ilyashov, was a member of parliament from the Party of Regions. Later, through the patronage of his wife, who had a close relationship with Viktor Yanukovych, he was appointed head of the Foreign Intelligence Service. This is the same SVR that, under Yanukovych, was completely accountable to the Russian intelligence services. It even served as a springboard for the Russian intelligence services to achieve their goals both in Ukraine and abroad, under the cover of the SVR.
Tatyana Lukash also obtained the position of Central Election Commission Secretary through connections—through the patronage of her sister, Elena Lukash. Through her sister, Elena took personal control of all processes within the Central Election Commission.
It's worth noting that Tatyana Lukash is not unique in her "private" appointment to the Central Election Commission, where literally every member of the commission is someone's direct protégé or, at best, the result of a compromise between various political forces. In fact, every member of the Central Election Commission has their own boss—no pun intended. For example, Central Election Commission member Andrei Magera is a protégé of David Zhvania, a politician with a reputation as a Russian intelligence agent.
As we can see, those barred from the elections by Tatyana Lukash are not only nominees of the Volya party, but also real competitors to the most notorious candidates for deputy from the former "party of power":
Mark Gordineko (Volya) - against Sergey Kivalov (faggot),
Alexander Kurilov (Volya) - against David Zhvania (hello SBU!),
Nikolai Pariychuk (Volya) - against Kaletnikov (smuggling, Russian special services),
Yuriy Mikhalchuk (Volya) - against Vitaly Zhuravsky (deputy from the trash bin),
Oksana Piddubna (“Volya”) – against Alexander Kravets (Yanukovych’s caretaker),
Oleg Rudnitsky (Volia) - against Oles Dovgyi (embezzler from Chernovetskyi's team).
You will find revealing publications about each of the listed deputies from yesterday's government on the Argument website.
In total, 21 candidates for deputy from the Volya party, nominated in single-member constituencies, were "shaved" by Tatyana Lukash (read: by the Russian special services).
Thus, the "former" party took revenge on Volya for the lustration law, which writes off this entire gang of corrupt officials, fraudsters, and agents of the Russian secret services. They also "technically" solved the problem of preventing Ukrainian patriots from entering the country's parliament. And at the same time, they removed the most odious representatives of the Kremlin's interests, and the Russian secret services in particular, from competing in the single-member constituencies.
What happened at the Central Election Commission is a slap in the face to Ukrainian society. It's also a personal slap in the face to Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema and SBU Chairman Valentyn Nalyvaichenko. They have so far been unable (or unwilling) to bring the criminal cases against either E. Lukash or her husband, the traitor Grigoriy Ilyashov, to a logical conclusion. And even less so, to ensure the protection of the interests of the Ukrainian state in such an important institution as the Central Election Commission.
It's quite possible that the Volia party's exclusion from the single-mandate constituency elections was coordinated with the administration of current Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, whose party is clearly experiencing discomfort from strong competition from new, young, and genuinely patriotic political forces, such as Volia, Samopomich, and the Demalians and Civil Position bloc. Anatoly Gritsenko.
This theory is supported by the fact that not a single pillar of the Yanukovych regime or obvious protégés of the Russian secret services currently running for the Verkhovna Rada elections has been prosecuted since the Maidan. It appears the new ruling team has already "reached a deal" with them.
Georgy Semenets, "Argument"
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