{"id":251214,"date":"2022-03-22T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251214"},"modified":"2022-03-23T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:25:59","slug":"sovereign-democracy-ukraine-zelenskyy-suspends-11-opposition-parties-becoming-head-of-a-one-party-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251214","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign \u2018Democracy\u2019 Ukraine: Zelenskyy Suspends 11 Opposition Parties Becoming Head Of A One-Party State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Standard News Staff \u2013 March 20, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with the backing of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defence Council, declared that all opposition parties would be suspended indefinitely until martial law is declared over.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued yesterday evening, President Zelenskyy announced the following decree: political parties who his party, \u201cServants of the People,\u201d has identified as being pro-Russian would be suspended until the nation-wide martial law is lifted. The list essentially includes every opposition party.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s RNBO suspends activities of pro- political parties for the time of the war, Zelenskyy informs:<\/p>\n

Opposition Platform-For Life<\/p>\n

Shariy\u2019s Party<\/p>\n

Nashi<\/p>\n

Opposition Bloc<\/p>\n

Socialist Party<\/p>\n

Left Opposition<\/p>\n

Union of Left Forces<\/p>\n

Derzhava & others<\/p>\n

\u2014 Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

With millions of their constituents now stripped of any political infrastructure, it\u2019s safe to say that this is not the sort of action taken by a \u2018democracy.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ukraine may be the first example in human history of a country that under the pressure of war is becoming *more* tolerant and *more* liberal<\/p>\n

\u2014 David Frum (@davidfrum) March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

Nor is it liberal. Sorry, Frum.<\/p>\n

Among the suspended parties is the \u201cOpposition Platform\u2014For Life (OPFL),\u201d Ukraine\u2019s second-largest party in parliament. OPFL has been a stalwart defender of Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty ever since the Russian invasion began. At the very start of the invasion, on February 24, OPFL expelled a member of their party for expressing support of the invasion. When martial law was declared and approved by parliament, not a single member of OPFL voted against the measure.\u00a0 Days later, OPFL supported a measure criminalizing collaboration with Russia. On March 7, they issued a statement calling for a ceasefire and complete withdrawal of all Russian troops.<\/p>\n

You are of course free to believe that banning all political parties that don\u2019t completely submit to the Zelensky line & imprisoning random bloggers for criticizing the government is awesome \u2013 but then stop spamming me with your bullshit \u201cthey invaded a sovereign democracy\u201d line<\/p>\n

\u2014 Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

To put this in perspective, OPFL has 43 seats in Ukraine\u2019s parliament. They represent millions of citizens and are particularly favored in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

If a similar action were to happen in the United States, it would be as though Biden stripped Republicans of all political influence.<\/p>\n

The following political parties were suspended: Opposition Platform\u2014For Life, Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, State, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists, and Volodymyr Saldo Bloc<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If a similar action were to happen in the United States, it would be as though Biden stripped Republicans of all political influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":250559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251217,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251214\/revisions\/251217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}