Opposition MPs are not allowed abroad, – MP Osadchuk
Source: member of parliament Andrii Osadchuk
‘Golos’ party MP Andrii Osadchuk stated that he was asked to withdraw his application for a trip to The Hague after he voted against government’s draft law.
He wrote that the president’s office turned business trips abroad into ‘political currency’ and opposition MPs are not allowed to visit foreign countries.
Osadchuk noted that this is happening when ‘Ukraine critically needs to promote its agenda everywhere in the world’.
The MP believes that ‘deputies from opposition factions who know English and other foreign languages could and should perform this function, communicating with their counterparts abroad, as well as with the voters of our partner countries, because politicians are oriented there to the will of voters’.
‘We urgently need weapons, we need funding, but the Ukrainian leadership does not draw conclusions from the shortcomings of the work, and this can all end very badly. We now have to throw all our resources into working with the West, because Ukraine’s survival in this war depends on their support,’ Osadchuk concluded.
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