Les députés du PC ukrainien ont été expulsés du parlement ce soir à cause de leurs condamnations du pogrom fasciste d'Odessa et de leur déclaration "séparatiste"

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(Ria novosti) 

La décision d'expulser les députés communistes de la salle des séances de la Rada suprême (parlement ukrainien) constitue une violation grossière des principes élémentaires de la démocratie et du parlementarisme, a indiqué mardi le ministère russe des Affaires étrangères dans un communiqué.

La Rada suprême a tenu mardi une réunion à huis clos consacrée au déroulement de l'opération spéciale menées par les forces armées dans l'Est du pays. Avant la réunion, les députés du Parti communiste d'Ukraine avaient été priés de quitter la salle en raison de "leurs prises de position séparatistes".

"Moscou constate une dégradation continue de la situation politique intérieure en Ukraine", lit-on dans le communiqué mis en ligne sur le site de la diplomatie russe.

"On voit apparaître de nouveaux témoignages montrant que les autorités de Kiev n'ont aucune envie d'engager un processus réel de désescalade et de réconciliation nationale en Ukraine. On est allé même jusqu'à faire sortir de la salle des séances les députés du Parti communiste d'Ukraine lors des débats portant sur des questions touchant les intérêts de tout le peuple ukrainien", rapporte le communiqué.

"Un tel comportement de la prétendue majorité à la Rada suprême témoigne d'une violation grossière des fondements élémentaires de la démocratie et du parlementarisme", souligne le ministère russe des Affaires étrangères. 

Moscou a de nouveau appelé les dirigeants ukrainiens à "réfléchir à la façon de mettre en place une dialogue national et une réforme constitutionnelle qui sont inconcevables sans l'arrêt des actions armées dans le Sud-Est du pays".

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Ukrainian Communists outraged by Rada majority's decision to expel faction from session hall

KYIV. May 6 (Interfax) - The expulsion of members of the Ukrainian Communist Party parliamentary faction from the Verkhovna Rada session hall on Tuesday indicates that parliamentary democracy in Ukraine has been eliminated, Communist Party leader and presidential candidate Petro Symonenko said.

"What happened in parliament today is a continuation of the events that took place in Odessa, and what we had in Odessa is the Khatyn of the 21st century, when people were burned alive. Parliamentary democracy has been dashed today. The current authorities are continuing the national-fascist rampancy that was in Odessa," Symonenko was quoted as saying on his official website.

It was reported earlier that a majority of the Verkhovna Rada deputies voted for expelling the Communist deputies from the session hall "for a separatist declaration" at a session behind closed doors on Tuesday, at which the deputies listened to reports from the law enforcement and security chiefs. After that, the Party of Regions deputies also left the session hall in solidarity with the Communists.

Symonenko said the Communist Party had demanded that the parliamentary session be open to the public, but the demand had been ignored.

"We demanded that there should be an open conversation at the parliament regarding the grounds on which peaceful people wishing Russian to be the second official language and a referendum were shot. But, amid everything that is going on now, they [the parliamentarians] tried to gag the Communist Party faction's mouth and decided to remove it from the hall," he added.

Symonenko pointed out that such a decision was made for the first time in independent Ukraine's history.

The Communist Party faction contented in a statement published on its website that the decision to expel an entire faction from a Verkhovna Rada session held behind closed doors is unprecedented and unlawful.

"After faction leader Petro Symonenko justly demanded that the Verkhovna Rada session be held openly so that the Ukrainian people could hear firsthand who is killing peaceful civilians in the Donetsk, Luhansk and other regions and burning people alive in Odessa and why, the pro-fascist majority, contrary to the Ukrainian law on the parliamentary rules of procedure, decided to expel the Communist parliamentarians from the plenary session hall," the statement says.

"Those who voted today for the Communist faction's illegitimate expulsion from the Verkhovna Rada plenary session hall allegedly for separatism, are the true separatists, tearing the country into oligarchic fiefdoms and depriving Ukraine of its political sovereignty and independence," he said.

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