Ukraine President Zelenskyy bans 11 opposition parties over alleged Russian links

opIndia ^ | March 20, 2022

[McGruff]

Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy has decided to ban the activities of 11 opposition parties, including some with alleged Russian links.

The largest of them is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country’s parliament, largely from the Russian speaking eastern Ukraine. The party is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has friendly ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the godfather of Medvedchuks daughter.

Other parties that have been banned include Opposition Bloc, Party of Sharia, Ours, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, State, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist party Ukraine, Socialists, and Vladimir Saldo Bloc.

President Zelenskyy spoke about this in a video address overnight Sunday, Ukrinform reports. Ukraine is currently under Martial Law since the Russian invasion, and these restrictions will stay till the Martial Law is in place.

In his address, President Zelenskyy said ,”I’d like to remind all politicians, from all camps: wartime exposes quite well the paucity of personal ambitions of those who try to put their own ambitions, their own party or career above the interests of the state, the people’s interests; those who hide in the rear, while pretending to be the only one who cares about defense.”

[McGruff]

That's our guy.

[Pearls Before Swine]

11 parties. How many do they have there?

[AndyJackson]

Good to see we are supporting Open Democracy - which is looking an awful lot like fascism for reasons I don’t fathom.

[alexander_busek]

That's our guy.

The Ukraine is at war! They've been invaded!

Under such circumstances, banning certain political parties is more than merely reasonable!

Regards,

[babble-on]

Gosh, why would he do that? What did Russians ever do to Ukraine?

[dila813]

Ug, he is listening to our state department lefties....cancel cancer ... way to divide a united country and does nothing in advancing this country’s fight

[JonPreston]

Zelenskyy is nearing his expatriation date.

BTW, has anyone seen our other puppet, the president of Afghanistan? Last seen he was loading hundreds of millions of US tax dollars onto a helicopter and disappearing.

[Renfrew]

So these are the sort of parties you support:

*Party of Sharia
*Left Opposition
*Union of Left Forces
*State, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
*Socialist party Ukraine

When you find yourself on the same side as the Islamists and Communists, don’t you wonder if you might be on the wrong team?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Interesting post from Poso:

https://nitter.net/JackPosobiec/status/1505521586325053441#m

FWIW.

[euram]

I’m sure that Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer encouraged him to do this.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Sounds pretty Fascist to me.

Glad Biden and the EU have his back.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just BAN all friggin’ politicians? Defund the bastards.

[Sacajaweau]

So we can ban the Dems...for their destructive fossil fuel policy??

[JonPreston]

MISSING!

WHO IS THIS MAN (the one with DEMENTO) AND WHERE DID HE GO WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS?

[NorseViking]

Sharia is a libertarian party. It’s real name is Sharij Party after the last name of her leader. It is mislabeled and misspelled by your “free media” for known reasons.

[mac_truck]

Welcome to Banderastan!

[rrrod]

How many parties does Putin allow? Nice try, again lol.

[alexander_busek]

So we can ban the Dems...for their destructive fossil fuel policy??

Are we at war? Have we been invaded?

Regards,

[JoSixChip]

Under such circumstances, banning certain political parties is more than merely reasonable! Regards,

Like locking people in their homes, Locking people-up without due process, restricting peoples Constitutional rights in the name of social justice, using the government resources to go after political opponents and corrupting elections to select rather then elect representation? That's a slippery slope my FRiend.

[2banana]

DEMOCRACY!!!!!