He called the actions of the oligarchs “unreasonable policy.”
“This law is the first step to put an end to it. Someone said that in fact the law is an empty thing, a fiction and will not work. Someone is one of the famous politicians-oligarchs. Despite all his words, I I sincerely thank him. That the law works, on the very first day after its adoption, this politician-oligarch proved. Convincing everyone that he is only a politician, he courageously lost a piece of himself and his media assets. I sincerely congratulate the teams of the two information channels that gained real independence and will be able to finally tell people the truth and work freely under the leadership of new, unbiased and independent owners. These are MPs from the party of this politician-oligarch, “the president said.
He did not name the politician, but pafter the Verkhovna Rada passed the law on oligarchs, Zelensky signed it, and the newspaper “Voice of Ukraine” published it, the fifth president, the people’s deputy from the “European Solidarity” Petro Poroshenko announced the sale of 100% of the corporate rights of his two channels to the holding “Free media”.
“The other day, due to the attack on freedom of speech, which is the real target of the law on oligarchs, I was forced to accept decision to sell shares of both its channels to journalists: current and former, who worked on “Direct” and, of course, on “Channel 5,” Poroshenko said on November 8.
Among the owners of the media holding “Free Media”, which bought the channels “Pryamiy” and “Channel 5” – nine people and two companies… Among the new owners are MPs from European Solidarity Irina Gerashchenko, Victoria Syumar, Vladimir Ariev, Irina Friz.
The Verkhovna Rada on September 23 adopted in the second reading the law of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on oligarchs. Per document 279 people’s deputies voted with 226 required. Voting took place according to a special procedure, without the possibility of making additional changes in the hall.
On September 2, Verkhovna Rada ombudsman for human rights Lyudmila Denisova addressed the speaker with an official letter regarding the bill, she stated that the document is contrary to the Constitution.
European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) took into consideration Razumkov’s appeal with a request to evaluate the bill on oligarchs. The commission said they would prepare an opinion on Zelensky’s bill on oligarchs in the middle of December, and urged not to consider the bill on oligarchs in the second reading in the Rada until its conclusion is ready, as this would be an extremely negative signal for Western partners.
On October 19, parliament unblocked the law on oligarchs, people’s deputies rejected 12 decisionsblocking the signing of the document by the speaker.
Verkhovna Rada November 3 eliminated contradictions in the text of the bill… The people’s deputies did not re-vote the law again, but only supported the amendments of the parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence, related to three articles of the document. According to the adopted clarifications, the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) will keep the register of oligarchs, as it was in the original version of the document.
November 4th the new speaker signed the law Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk, followed by a document signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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