The expert named the reasons why the leader of the European Solidarity Party, Petro Poroshenko, submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada that allows MPs and officials to travel freely abroad. According to Petro Oleshchuk, the main reason for Poroshenko's initiative is the opportunity to visit his sons in London and to allow travel for his relatives, officials, prosecutors and judges, UNN reports.
According to the political expert, the main reason for Poroshenko's initiative is domestic.
"He (Poroshenko - ed.) wants to see his sons, who were liable for military service and fled Ukraine just before the full-scale invasion. The rest of Poroshenko's faction also wants to see their families. During their tenure in the Rada, Eurosolidarity MPs have acquired villas and cottages in European resorts. Their families and their children live and study in the best universities of the richest EU countries," the political expert said, emphasizing that this is why the entire Eurosolidarity faction signed the initiative.
Also, according to Oleshchuk, with this law, Poroshenko wants to "appease" some other social categories that are offered free travel abroad.
"Deputies and officials, judges and prosecutors will also be very grateful to the MP. After all, they will be able to sit through shelling and power outages not in their homes, like all Ukrainians, but abroad. And there are no sirens, no explosions, and air conditioners are always on. It is noteworthy that Poroshenko hid the provision on political tourism behind the beautiful title of the law, which refers to "strengthening the motivation and protection of the rights of military personnel." It is not clear whom exactly the oligarch had in mind: his friends and neighbors in the Spanish villa of the Svynarchuks or his adult sons," Petro Oleshchuk wrote.
According to the expert, the leader of Eurosolidarity was aware of the consequences of his initiative.
"It is unlikely that Poroshenko did not realize that during the war, when millions of Ukrainians cannot travel abroad, giving free passage to the most odious categories is a national scandal. He did. But the scandal will be forgotten, and the opportunity to travel the world will remain," Oleshchuk emphasized.
As was reported earlier, Petro Poroshenko asked pro-Russian Hungarian European Commissioner Oliver Varghese to slow down Ukraine's EU accession talks if Poroshenko is not allowed to travel abroad.