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Khomutynnik wants to undercut Tymoshenko, Lyashko, and Sadovyi
A new parliamentary deputy group has appeared. It's the same dissolved "Economic Development," but with the more pretentious name "Revival."
When Vitaliy Khomutynnik dissolved his deputy group "Economic Development," Dzerkalo Tyzhnia assumed the reason was a string of setbacks plaguing the deputy. Put simply, he lost all influence over customs and the tax service. However, Khomutynnik was without his own group for only one day. Today in the Rada the creation of "Revival" was announced, which includes 22 deputies, and the deputies of the young ex-"regional" are Viktor Bondar, who is considered a man of Dnipropetrovsk head Ihor Kolomoisky, and Valeriy Pysarenko. This Kharkiv single-mandate MP is considered close to Andriy Portnov and others. He is linked by long-standing business relations to Sviatoslav Oliynyk, Kolomoisky’s deputy in the regional state administration.
"Revival"’s dreams of a "golden share" that coalition members would need will not come true. And they will not succeed in unseating Samopomich, the Radicals, and Batkivshchyna — they don't have enough votes.
However, it would be wrong to say that Khomutynnik’s "Revival" is another Ihor Valeriyovych project. Through this deputy group the head of Dnipropetrovsk will be able to resolve some of his issues. But the problem is that Khomutynnik and Co.'s reputation is badly tarnished by cooperation with the Yanukovych regime, so this group won't be able to expand numerically. Therefore, "Revival"’s dreams of a "golden share" that coalition members would need will not come true. And they will not succeed in unseating Samopomich, the Radicals, and Batkivshchyna. They don't have enough votes.
But besides attempts to regain lobbying influence in parliament, it seems "Revival" will also become a project for local elections. A party with that name was created earlier by Heorhiy Kirpa; its most recent head is another railwayman, Viktor Ostapchuk, a colleague of Khomutynnik in the deputy group. Thus, with a high degree of likelihood one can assume that "Revival" will put forward its own candidates in a number of regions and will have its own single-mandate candidates—especially in central and eastern regions. By entering the elections this way, "Revival" could be useful to the authorities, since the more competitors there are for various "Opposition Blocs," the smaller their representation in local councils will be.
Right now it is generally quite instructive to observe the emergence of new projects and the reappearance of old ones. The struggle for mandates in local councils promises to be very fierce, because after decentralization that will be where the action is. Therefore, oligarchs have already begun buying parties and popular regional figures, changing the names of deputy groups in parliament to promote their projects.
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