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A Party of Regions people's deputy suspects Baloha of organizing a war and working as a "Medvedchuk's treadle"
20.11.2006, 14:47
The Party of Regions faction member Oleksiy Plotnikov claims that the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Viktor Baloha sends a signal to the Premier's team to prepare for an inevitable war.
"Despite the assurances of commitment to constructive dialogue between the Presidential Secretariat and the Government, his interview leaves an impression of the indistinct implicit signal to the Premier's team: Prepare for the war which is inevitable", – he commented on the Baloha's interview for the "Zerkalo Nedeli" ("The Mirror of the Week") newspaper.
Plotnikov states that "actually all other remarks of the Head of the Presidential Secretariat add up to one thing: Threats to block any Government actions, if the Government requires adherence to the Constitutional norms."
The people's deputy quotes Head of the Presidential Secretariat claiming that "the President has no intention to engage in the confrontation with any political force or any branch of power." He also reminds Baloha's words that "The President does not want to build his work on the confrontation, and therefore, he does not respond to aggression by aggression, and he tries to defuse sharp points which are spontaneously or deliberately incited by others."
Thus, according to Viktor Baloha, on the part of the Government, and hence the entire anti-crisis coalition, there is aggression, and consequently one has to prepare to repel it. In the practical political language, it may fall short of calling for the immediate formation of the "party of war", however, it could be a signal to establish a bridgehead to amass forces supporting this idea, – says Plotnikov.
In his mind, "it flows from the long interview that Viktor Baloha contemplates a possibility of dissolving Parliament, rescinding political reform, and returning to the model of the heavy-handed presidential rule, presented as an acceptable scenario."
"Viktor Baloha attributes it not to desire to regain extensive presidential authority, but rather to "the threat to the national security", – adds the people's deputy.
"Revolutions and coups usually start with something like that – with declarations that the nation is in jeopardy. For that reason, appointment to the Presidential Secretariat of those who are leaning to "unexpected decisions" should raise public concern that hard-attained stability could be ruined, in view of the related preparations for that", – Plotnikov emphasizes.
The parliamentarian calls on the Western media to notice Viktor Baloha's interview.
"If the presidential chief of staff declares that he is prepared to dismantle the parliamentary-presidential form of government and return to the times when the presidential decrees were laws, it should raise alarm over the fate of democracy in Ukraine", – Oleksiy Plotnikov reckons.
"And the fact that the new tenant of Viktor Medvedchuk's office returned to the previous occupant a "dust-covered bicycle ergometer", left there after the orange revolution, does not necessarily mean that he is not working the same treadle", – adds the MP.
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