Ukrainian Court Officially Bans Another Opposition Party, Seizes All Assets, Property and Funds

Elvis Dunderhoff June 21, 2022

You thought Zelensky had already banned all the opposition parties months ago. But apparently, a new party started opposing him, so he had to ban that too.

This is real democracy in action. Oppose the war? We’re sending the military to your office and seizing your property. We will throw you all in prison.

Kyiv, Ukraine is the only democracy in Russia.

RT:

Ukraine’s Opposition Platform – For Life (OPPL) party was officially banned by a Ukrainian court on Monday. The Ministry of Justice announced on Facebook that all of its assets, property, and funds are to be transferred to the state.

The ruling to ban the party was carried out by the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeals in the western city of Lviv, following a request from the Ministry of Justice. The OPPL had all of its operations suspended by the authorities in Kiev in March after the launch of Moscow’s military operation, and the party and its leaders were accused of having ties to Russia and being “anti-Ukrainian.”

They may also have had ties to Donald Trump, experts claim.

17,000 intelligence agencies believe that Donald Trump is working with the Russians to destroy democracy out of sheer mean-spiritedness.

In its Facebook post, the ministry noted that Ukrainian courts have so far banned 11 “pro-Russian” parties suspected of acting to “undermine the sovereignty” of the country.

Before its operations were suspended, the OPPL was Ukraine’s largest opposition group and second-largest party in the country. In 2019, it won 13% of the vote in a parliamentary election, and in 2021, polls showed that it surpassed President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ‘Servant of the People’ as the most popular party.

Since 2018, it was led by Viktor Medvedchuk, a businessman who called for better relations with Russia and saw Kiev’s western turn as detrimental to national interests. In May 2021, Medvedchuk was placed under house arrest after being accused of treason amid Zelensky’s crackdown on dissent.

Just to be clear – that’s like a year before the Russian invasion.

I don’t closely follow all these names, but I thought that guy’s party was already banned. Anyway, whatever – the details don’t really matter much here.

Medvedchuk had repeatedly denied accusations against him as “politically motivated,” and insisted he was never “pro-Russian,” but merely wanted what was best for the Ukrainian people.

On April 12, the OPPL leader was captured by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) as he allegedly tried to flee the country. The arrest was made public after Zelensky published a photo of the man in handcuffs. The politician has since been held in custody by the SBU at an unknown location.

Medvedchuk’s wife, Oksana Marchenko, has been pleading with world leaders to organize her husband’s release or exchange and has accused the SBU of beating and torturing him.

Haha – secret torture prison for the political opposition!

Democracy – yes!

Autocracy? Not even once!

It’s illegal to do this in China – therefore it must be LEGAL in democracy. We are going to put the political opposition in secret torture prisons, but we have to do it LEGALLY.

Last week, Ukrainian courts banned two more political movements – the Left Opposition and the Party of Shariy – both of which were previously featured on the list of 11 political factions suspended by Ukraine’s Security Council.

On May 14, President Zelensky signed into law a bill that simplifies the process of banning political parties deemed to be ‘anti-Ukrainian’. Under the law, any party that opposes or challenges the official position of the government, especially when it comes to the ongoing conflict with Moscow, can have their operations banned and assets seized by a court ruling which cannot be appealed.

Yeah, so, okay – we’ve discussed the fact that this word “democracy” is now so nebulous that it no longer even implies “right to vote” and is more related to gay sex. But still. If most people in the West heard about this, they would be like “wait, this is the democracy?”

Yes, in Russia, the opposition leader is in prison. But for one, it is not a secret torture prison, and for another, he was charged in a court and convicted of actual crimes that have nothing to do with politics. You can argue about that, but it’s still not as extreme as outright passing a law that says opposition is illegal.

There is no way you can claim that the Ukraine is “more democratic” than Russia. It cannot be claimed by a serious person. So then – what is the war about, Joe Biden??? Mitch McConnell???

Why are we doing this???

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