Shulyak hopes that the draft law on imperative mandate will be adopted
Elena Shulyak (left) and Alexander Trukhin (right). Photo: collage “Today”
The head of the Servant of the People party, Elena Shulyak, said that there were no legislative grounds to deprive deputy Alexander Trukhin of his mandate, who appeared in the accident.
She said this in an interview with Radio Liberty.
“If there are no legal grounds to recall him and take away his mandate, then how can you break the law? And you cannot take him away in any way. Whether he remains a deputy or not will depend on how much he believes that his behavior was unworthy and how much he can surrender the mandate himself. I count on his conscience”Shulyak noted.
According to her, the situation with Trukhin once again raises the issue of applying an “imperative mandate” for people’s deputies.
“It seems to me that now is a very good time to start this discussion. Re-introduce the bill regarding the imperative mandate”– summed up the head of the party.
What is known about the accident with Trukhin?
- The accident occurred on August 23, 2021 in the Darnitsky district of Kiev. Six people were seriously injured in it. The day before, the media published a video from the chest cameras of the police officers who were at the scene of the accident, in which the name of the people’s deputy from the Servant of the People Alexander Trukhin appears. It follows from the video that the deputy wanted to escape from the scene of the incident, offered to “thank” the police and hinted that he had a bag of money in his car.
- After that, Trukhin was expelled from the Servant of the People party. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky supported this decision.
- The people’s deputy himself said that he was ready to bear responsibility for his actions and lay down his deputy mandate.
- In addition, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Denis Monastyrsky, answered whether the deputy Trukhin asked to “get rid of” him. And patrolman Sergei Petrik said that he did not have access to the video after the accident with Alexander Trukhin, and he also did not see the bag with money in the trunk of the deputy.
- The State Bureau of Investigation also showed a video of who was driving in Trukhin’s car.
Source: Segodnya
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