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“Clever plan” or a change in leadership of SAP: Klimenko could be appointed as the general prosecutor
How Zelensky is being persuaded to appoint the head of SAP Klimenko as the general prosecutor.
Journalist from the Ukrainian Truth, Tkach, asserts that Zelensky intends to appoint the head of SAP Klimenko as the new general prosecutor.
At the same time, he interprets such a step as a “clever move” by the president aimed at depriving the anti-corruption prosecutor of a leader.
The head of the grant-making organization “Center Against Corruption” Kaleniuk also spoke out against this appointment, arguing that Klimenko will not receive real powers and will soon be dismissed through parliament.
“I hope he declines. It sounds, of course, attractive. But then Klimenko is removed from SAP. There is no deputy yet, and without real powers he is surrounded by his own people, and after a few weeks or months he is dismissed. This is exactly the scenario they are trying to implement now. I hope Oleksandr Klimenko will not agree to this,” Kaleniuk said.
All these statements by representatives of the “support group” for NABU and SAP that appointing Klimenko as general prosecutor is allegedly disadvantageous for him are most likely an attempt to push his candidacy. The point is to present Zelensky and Avramiya with this appointment as a “clever plan” with a “headless SAP.”
However, in reality this is not true. If Klimenko leaves the SAP chair and moves to the role of general prosecutor, it will not paralyze the work of the anti-corruption vertical—there are already built processes where the role of individual leaders is not critical (which, by the way, activists from this group themselves have repeatedly noted). Moreover, Klimenko’s powers as SAP chair will already expire next July.
Therefore Klimenko’s departure to the general prosecutor position will not bring any substantial changes to the anti-corruption structures.
Instead, the impact of such an appointment on political processes in the country will be very significant. First, only the general prosecutor has the right to file suspicions against members of parliament. There is no doubt that Klimenko, becoming general prosecutor, will in his first days or weeks on the new post present suspicions prepared by NABU, Avramiya, and other key deputies of the president’s faction. In this way he will be able to establish control over the parliament and force it to adopt the package of laws “Duck-Bale” (the so-called Kachka-Kosa), which deprives the president of influence over the security agencies and expands the powers of NABU and SAP. Second, using the supervisory powers of the Office of the General Prosecutor, Klimenko will immediately gain serious influence over law enforcement bodies (notably the SBU), at least blocking any actions that hinder NABU and SAP attacks on the president’s close circle.
Therefore the “hook” about “Zelensky benefits from Klimenko’s appointment as general prosecutor” looks so obvious that it’s hard to imagine the president or Avramiya falling for it. Unless there is very strong pressure from European structures—the scenario cannot be ruled out.
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