Poroshenko calls Boiko's exclusion from committee runaround, calls on Rada to deprive Opposition Platform for Life members of their mandates
Member of parliament, leader of the European Solidarity party, Petro Poroshenko, regards the exclusion of the head of the parliamentary group Platform for Life and Peace in the Verkhovna Rada, ex-co–chairman of the Opposition Platform for Life party banned in 2022, Yuriy Boiko, from the parliamentary human rights committee as manipulation and called for the adoption of a law on the deprivation of mandates all deputies elected from the Opposition Platform for Life party, the political force said on its website on Thursday.
"There is such a way of manipulating public consciousness - it is called concealing a problem. Is it a problem that Boiko is in some committee? We live in completely different universes: the country and them. Therefore, we must immediately put our bill 8089 to the vote and expel it ... this fifth column out of the Rada hall," Poroshenko said while speaking in the parliament.
"We need to put to the vote the personal income tax for brigades, the military special fund, the protection of the army, the provision of drones, scouts, mines, shells - and they interfere with all this. They split society, there can be no unity with them," Poroshenko is convinced.
As reported, Yuriy Boiko on the TikTok social network announced the growing support for his political force at the expense of people who allegedly suffer from certain "radicals" in Ukraine, as well as an alleged ban on speaking their native language.
Head of the NSDC's Center for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, noted that the words about "radicals" and "language prohibitions" that came from Boiko's mouth "are usually spread by Russians about violence against people, without mentioning Russia." Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said that it is impossible to talk about violence against people without remembering Vladimir Putin, who was guilty of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and everything that followed. Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, said that some politicians in Ukraine were spreading Russian narratives in the midst of a full-scale war with the Russian Federation, without specifying the names of these politicians.
On Tuesday, December 17, Boiko came for questioning to the Security Service of Ukraine in connection with the published statement. After that, he made a statement that he had referred to Poroshenko and the paramilitary groups that arose after 2014.
On the same day, the European Solidarity faction called on MPs to immediately adopt bills that deprive representatives of pro–Russian groups from the banned Opposition Platform - For Life party of their mandates.
On December 19, the Verkhovna Rada expelled Boiko from the parliamentary human rights committee on the second attempt.