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he current election law passed in the time of Viktor Yanukovych allows swindlers and criminals to make it to the legislature as first-past-the-pole lawmakers. However, Pres Poroshenko does not want it changed as, thanks to swindlers and criminals, he plans to garner a majority in the Rada, lawmaker and Poroshenko’s avid critic Sergii Leshchenko said on ZIK TV Aug. 11.

The present legislature has turned into a business club and is the main hub of corruption in the country, he said.

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