Is the elected parliament happy for the people?

Almost two weeks have passed since Ukraine was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, but passions are still boiling. The unhealthy sensation around this event suggests some thoughts ...

Familiar faces ...

So, on October 28 of this year, elections to the supreme body of state government of Ukraine were held and even recognized as having taken place - although with many reservations, disputes and threats by party leaders to abandon their mandates in order to achieve re-elections and a more truthful count of votes. We can also sum up some results and answer the question: the elected Rada is what?

But to start a little history. Let us recall what the Rada is all about, why it serves and whose interests it is to protect.

In Ukrainian, the word "rada" means "advice". Even in the times of Zaporizhzhya Sich the Cossacks held a council, deciding which military campaigns to go, whom to leave as a rear screen, what routes to go, or with whom to conclude peace treaties, to unite against common enemies. On the same "rads" questions of leadership of the Cossack armies were solved. One of the most significant in the history of the people is "rad" - Pereyaslavskaya, which was adopted by the Cossacks, headed by B. Khmelnitsky, to enter into citizenship to Russian rulers. The parliament was considered the main legislative body of Ukraine. The very term "Elected Rada" refers to the 17th century. This is how the disgraced Prince Kurbsky called the few trusted persons of Ivan the Terrible. They formed a sort of unofficial government and were the king's main advisers in state affairs.

Much later, already in the 20 th century, when Ukraine became part of the USSR, the Verkhovna Rada became known as the Supreme Council. The name was fixed after the adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine. And only after the collapse of the Union and the formation of an independent state the Council again became the Rada.

To date, in Ukraine, the president is the supreme executive body, Rada is the legislative one. Representatives, or deputies, are elected to the Rada by the people. Because Ukraine is a multi-party state, each party nominates its people, wide election campaigns are conducted to ensure that these nominees receive parliamentary mandates. The adoption of new laws depends on the Council. In theory, this state body should represent and protect the interests and needs of the people. This, as they say, ideally. But we will return to "today" and analyze the current Radu from this point of view.

As expected, "ruled" in this action "Party of Regions", by all the truths and crooks in advance securing a victory. President Yanukovych, standing at the helm of power since 2010, generously treated Ukrainians with promises, in fact very little care for the welfare and needs of the people. The word is not a sparrow, it can not be caught and presented as evidence, but the people are not a fool either! People perfectly remember Yanukovych's assurances that life will become really better. Just did not specify the president, who better? Probably, to his family, whose welfare growth became a byword.

"Sleight of hands and no fraud"?

To maintain their power in the country, all means are good. This principle was taken by Yanukovych for an uncontested rule. In order to include as many "people" as possible in the elected Rada, the president did not disdain to change the electoral legislation, introduce into it a so-called "mixed system" in which half of the parliament is elected by party lists and half by majority districts. Thus, the "Party of Regions", possessing huge administrative resources, was able to collect the necessary number of votes on party lists. But the key role in the formation of the majority will be played by the majority. The "Party" held the main number in parliament under its own brand, and a decent part was held in the form of so-called self-nominees.

However, it is worth giving the head of the Ukrainian state the due - it does not belong to the precedent. Such a scam was done by the former president L.Kuchma, likewise forming a majority convenient for himself in the Rada with the help of the majority system. And the deputies of the Ukrainian parliament in the common people are called ... "carcasses" - obviously, because they are freely sold and bought. After all, if the elections were conducted purely on party lists, the party of regions could no longer count on the majority, even with falsification and other elective frauds. So the elected Rada is, alas, by and large, a meeting of people far from honest and devoted to their duty and people!

"That's what we should respect in the desert ..."

The Party of Regions is a party of big capital, a large oligarchy. Because it was not difficult for her to set up in the majority districts millionaires and billionaires of the local spill, who easily bought voters potatoes, onions, bicycles, children's playgrounds and even glasses, not to mention the money giving to the half-hungry pensioners, whom, incidentally, the government itself led to a terrible impoverishment . And you do not need to have a rich imagination to guess what the activities of the elected Rada will be directed to, whose "wannabes" it will satisfy and which place in the priority scale will benefit the interests of ordinary voters. If the Decembrists once tried to act without the people, but for the people, the Verkhovna Rada is, in fact, deeply parallel.

And we are happy for them?

Under any political system, any form of state power, there is an explicit or hidden opposition as a counterbalance to the existing government. Each ruling power seeks to retain its power, and each opposition seeks to come to power. This is the basic political rule, it applies to the situation in Ukraine. The opposition was represented in the election campaign by Communists and nationalist forces. It was in them that the disbelieving voter tried to find the last point of support. Thus, in addition to the Party of Regions and the united opposition under the Batkivshchyna brand, the Communist Party of Ukraine and the ultranationalist party Svoboda, led by Oleg Tyagnibok, passed to the Verkhovna Rada with a record number of votes. But the main surprise of these elections was the appearance on the Ukrainian political Olympus of a new party - the party of the famous boxer Vitali Klitschko, "Udar", which took the third place, having passed ahead of the "Regions" and the United Opposition. Voting for "Strike", in fact, was of a protest character. People lost faith in old parties and politicians and, mostly young people, decided to vote for a man who honestly earned his money and who had never participated in big politics before.

Pyrrhic victory

So, the elected Rada is a state body. It is he who will lead Ukraine in the next few years. The composition of the elected Rada of the 7th convocation is as follows: according to party lists, the Party of Regions won 30% of the vote. 4.5% behind the opposition "Fatherland". 14% scored "blow", and about the same number of "Communist Party of Ukraine". Closed the top five leaders with 10.5% of the vote, the ultra-right "Freedom". But everything was decided, according to the forecasts of political scientists, in the majority districts. The party of power held a huge number of its representatives under any pretexts. Additionally, many self-nominees will join her faction, which will strengthen the position of the "regions", they will no longer have to form coalitions with other political forces. And the activities of the elected Rada will be directed to full support of the president. By and large, the "Regions" will concentrate the constitutional majority, which will allow to freely change the Constitution of Ukraine itself.

Why change it, you ask? It's simple. Ukraine is deeply mired in debt, the budget deficit is growing, the NBU's gold and currency reserves are shrinking. In these conditions, the IMF credits remain the saving straw for the government. In order to receive them, it will be necessary to take unpopular decisions one by one, starting with a sharp increase in tariffs for gas and other services for the population, the adoption of a new Housing and Labor Code that dramatically worsen the existence of ordinary Ukrainians.

It is clear that after such reforms, this power will not win any more elections. Therefore, it should be assumed that after appropriate changes in the Constitution, the presidential general election will be abolished, Yanukovich will remain for a second term, longer than the first, - I will be glad for this.

The election outcome is sad. In fact, the elected Rada is a profanation of democracy and concern for the citizens of the country. The dictatorship of the big capital party has long been established in Ukraine, and the "abridgement" for ordinary Ukrainians will continue ...