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🤷♂️ If you think that today the "Carthage" issue was even remotely raised in the Rada... then you have a very high opinion of the Rada.
Yes, we mentioned it in speeches—Me, the European Solidarity, Batkivshchyna, and even a representative of Servant (Venislavskyi). But then the Rada continued the agenda as if nothing had happened.
🎙️My speech:
"We already had a concentration of power. Now we have a colcentralization of the whole country.
That's the only way to explain hearing “Stop! I'll shoot!” not on the front, but in Koncha-Zaspa. There, Alpha unit fighters of the SBU were forced to protect a general from NABU detectives while he was chopping up evidence with an axe.
And it’s fine with us, colleagues. Because I open the agenda, and we don’t start by hearing from the acting head of the SBU. Not from the interior minister. Not from the president’s report. We start with a law on pesticides. A powerful response from a powerful parliament.
And let's be honest: this is not the first time. Another corruption scandal, and once again we pretend that this is how it should be.
It’s how it should be that a drug cartel gives orders to our general. That major generals report to thug bosses. During a war.
It’s how it should be that under the SBU’s roof there were drugs, acid attacks, legs broken with hammers, kidnappings. That 52 call centers were calling our parents on behalf of the “bank security service.”
It’s how it should be that the president 4 was silent for days.
It’s how it should be that no one knew what these people were doing in the Security Service of Ukraine while sitting in the rear.
It’s how it should be that we have been discussing SBU reform for 8 years. And the bill is still waiting for its second reading.
It’s how it should be that none of the laws from our anti-corruption package appear on any agenda day. No reboot of the Prosecutor General’s Office. No reform of the State Bureau of Investigations. Not even a law to check the money these guys are currently collecting for bail. So that, by chance, those funds aren’t drug cartel money.
And everyone pretends this is how it must be. The president didn’t know. The head of the President’s Office probably didn’t know either. The acting prosecutor general and acting head of the SBU didn’t know either. People already ask: are we seriously being asked to believe that nobody knew anything? That nobody in this country knew what all these powerful people were up to?
And we, as parliament, never responded properly even once. And so we become the same accomplices. The real victory of corruption is not that they steal. It is that we got used to it.
Dear colleagues, you were servants of the people. Not servants of Mexicans. Not servants of a drug cartel. Not servants of the rear devils from the SBU.
We can take a stand. My team and I wrote 10 anti-corruption laws, and on 5 November I asked the Speaker to put them on the floor. Bring them out. Finally pass SBU reform. Finally dismiss all those who now defile the honor and dignity of the decent Alpha unit people who defend us.
And don’t pretend that the only thing Parliament can do is a law on pesticides."
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