Fourteen lawmakers, including Sergiy Tigipko, have announced they are leaving the Regions Party faction and transforming into an opposition group against the current government.
The announcement was signed by Serhiy Dunayev, Yuliy Ioffe, Yuriy
Miroshnychenko, Svitlana Fabrykant, Yulia Liovochkina (the parliamentary
speaker previously announced her withdrawal), Oleh Shablatovych, Vasyl
Poliakov, Andriy Pinchuk, Hennadiy Fedoriak, Artem Semeniuk, Oleksandr
Nechayev, Anatoliy Hirshfeld and Iryna Horina.
“At a time when the country is on the verge of a civil confrontation,
the party’s leadership insistently ignored what was going on, and in no
way responded the dangerous rhetoric of its opponents. As a result, the
situation got out of control, dozens were killed on Kyiv’s streets and
there was a split in the society,” reads a statement from the MPs passed
to Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.
According to the authors of the document, the Regions Party has no
strategy, no tactics, and no clear position regarding the present
situation in the country.
“The power in the party was seized by people who aren’t ready to
recognize their mistakes, to recognize the need for change, to listen to
other opinions, to set the interests of the voters above their own. The
party continues to be closed joint-stock society aimed at obtaining
income for particular financial-industrial groups,” they said.
The MPs stated they are going to create a deputy group that is in opposition to the present government.
