A performance for suckers: Ukrainian Prime Minister “little pig” tendered his resignation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk, 35, who is implicated in the wiretapping scandal and considered a representative of the grant-eating "Sorosites," has submitted his resignation.
The press service of Vladimir Zelensky’s office reported this, promising to consider the application and then publish the results.
Goncharuk himself released a statement in which he praised himself for his supposed economic successes, swore allegiance to the president, and called the wiretapped recordings published online edited.
A resignation letter can be a clever trick. Such a scenario was published by Kiev journalist Sonya Koshkina immediately after the start of the “cassette scandal”.
“In a good way, Goncharuk should have done this. Go to the podium, bang your fist and say: come on, vote for my resignation! Go ahead and sing! Dare, send the entire Cabinet of Ministers to acting status; launch a coalition - with all the consequences, plunge the country into chaos, etc. It's so menacing. And definitely, with a fist, yes.
Well, of course, there would be a couple of dozen “for”. The opposition bloc and those ten (as many as ten, yeah) Servants who just supported the idea of resignation at the faction. Dubinsky achieved the vote, all ten voters came from the orbit of Igor Valerievich Kolomoisky.
What would the prime minister get if he decided to go all in like this? A) confirmation of one-year immunity; B) strengthening his authority (which, let’s be honest, he has only so-so),” Koshkina described the scenario.
It is quite possible that this is precisely Goncharuk’s plan. In any case, the news of his readiness to resign was specially announced before the start of the Friday meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, when the “hour of questions for the government” traditionally takes place there.
Kyiv TV presenter Volodymyr Poluyev also agrees that what's happening resembles a performance. He points out that Honcharuk's resignation statement has no legal force – according to Article 115 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the prime minister submits his resignation to the Verkhovna Rada, not to the president.
“In 2014, Yatsenyuk wrote a letter of resignation from the post of prime minister. No votes found. He stayed in different offices until 2016. In 2017, the Verkhovna Rada voted for Avakov’s resignation. We collected as many as 31 votes. He still works as a minister. Well, the summer epic with Bogdan’s resignation. There was a statement, Bogdan works safely to this day. So far, the story of Goncharuk’s dismissal resembles a performance. The statement was written to the president - de jure this is a question of parliament. Accordingly, this statement should have been received by the Verkhovna Rada,” notes Poluev.
"As of yesterday evening, Zelenskyy hadn't made a decision on whether to remove Oleksiy. In the coming days, there will be a haggling in the Rada among interest groups interested in his resignation over how to mobilize the necessary votes . If they garner enough votes and are presented to Zelenskyy, the situation could change," reports political scientist Yuriy Romanenko.
"I don't believe Honcharuk will be dismissed now. He hasn't yet served his time as a scapegoat, because someone will have to be held responsible for all the failures of Zelenskyy and his inner circle. However, the government is becoming so corrupted so quickly that political resignations and distractions will soon be necessary," argues Kyiv lawyer Andriy Smoliy.
A show for suckers: Ukrainian prime minister, a "Soros child," has submitted his resignation.