Batkivschyna Faction Leader Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has plans to destroy the Verkhovna Rada.
“This is a scheme of President Yanukovych, which is being carried out
by [Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr] Rybak and the Party of
Regions. [This is] a scheme for the destruction of the last stronghold
of democracy and parliamentarianism, which is not controlled by
Yanukovych. This is the Verkhovna Rada,” Yatseniuk said at a briefing in
Kyiv on Tuesday.
According to the leader of the Batkivschyna faction, the opposition is being constantly attacked.
“There are constant attacks not only on the opposition, but on the
millions of Ukrainians who voted for the opposition. This is a start of
the preparations for the 2015 presidential campaign by President
Yanukovych. Yanukovych cannot win the election in any other way but
through the destruction of the opposition,” Yatseniuk said.
“Over the past three months the opposition has shown that it is can
fight in parliament and achieve results. Yanukovych is not happy with
this parliament,” he added.
“So their plan is to destroy opposition lawmakers in the first place,
and secondly to destroy the Verkhovna Rada as such,” Leader of the
Batkivschyna Party said, adding: “The authors of this idea are two
people: the customer – President Viktor Yanukovych and the executor –
Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Rybak.”
According to Yatseniuk, at a meeting with Rybak, the opposition
repeated their demands to the speaker to withdraw the lawsuit from the
Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on depriving MP Serhiy Vlasenko
of his parliamentary seat.
However, Rybak did not agree to this demand.
Yatseniuk also said that members of the Batkivschyna faction would
take part in the meeting of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine
at which this lawsuit is considered.
