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Yatsenko: Some deputies are helping Pletnyova and solving all issues
Member of Parliament Anton Yatsenko stated that city mayor of Uman Irina Pletnyova is effectively controlled by a group of people. He said this in an interview with “Glavkom”.
“She was my assistant back in 2015 year, when she was running for city mayor. But when we went to the elections as a team, we had a strict agreement that no one would steal, no one would profit money in Uman. Over time Pletnyova developed a temptation, and then she moved to completely corrupt schemes. Now she is controlled by a small group of people. The city of Uman is effectively governed by Andriy Dykun, a kind of local 'sheriff', the head of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council,” noted the deputy.
The deputy stated that Pletnyova cannot now be considered a full-fledged city mayor, because, in his view, she is a subordinate person whom Andriy Dykun effectively leads. Yatsenko also noted that the law firm currently representing Pletnyova in court previously worked for Dykun.
“Businessman Andriy Dykun and his brother Lyubomyr Dykun, a deputy of Cherkasy regional council from the party ‘Servant of the People’, are crooks who enrich themselves during the war. A major criminal case of pillaging pickup trucks is being investigated. Their cover is VARom — something like that… I have many questions for them,” the deputy added.
Yatsenko emphasized that Dykun has “psychological complexes,” which, in his view, are mainly related to losses in elections. According to the deputy, Dykun repeatedly ran for elections (twice in 2012 year and 2014-year — he ran in the 200 district and lost to Yatsenko. In 2020 year, Dykun tried to become mayor of Uman but took third place, losing to Pletnyova, “Glavkom” reported), but did not achieve victory. Yatsenko believes politics is not his sphere.
“Pletnyova is helped by and all issues are closed by certain members of the Verkhovna Rada. In particular, Serhiy Babak, Oleksandr Kovalychuk, Oleksandr Zavytnevych — all from the Servant of the People faction. Some of them even got into the Supervisory Board of Uman National University,” the deputy summed up.
As a reminder, 8 in September the party congress of “For the Future” considered the appeal of the Uman City Territorial Election Commission and unanimously supported recalling Irina Pletnyova from the post of city mayor.
Incidentally, Uman city mayor Irina Pletnyova stated that MP Anton Yatsenko sought to preserve influence over Uman city authorities after her election as mayor in 2020 year. According to her, Yatsenko wanted to remain a deputy and control the city council.
In particular, Irina Pletnyova stated about possible violations during the signatures collection for her recall. According to her, signatures were collected not only by members of the initiative group, but the petition sheets could be filled in advance.
At the same time Member of Parliament Anton Yatsenko stated that if he participates in the Uman mayoral election he would gain 70–80% of the votes.
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