"Servant of the People" MPs Mariana Bezuhla and Halyna Tretiakova have registered a bill in parliament that provides for a 12-year prison sentence for "representing Ukraine's interests abroad" without "authority and approval."
This was reported by users of the social network Facebook.
"First, they thanked volunteers for "appropriating state functions" and "filling in the holes" where the authorized bodies could not cope, and introduced crazy regulation of volunteer work. Then they introduced state control over civil society organizations engaged in reforms at the national and local levels and passed a law on lobbying, which in EU countries is designed as a mechanism of transparency, not control. And now it's the turn of the people who advocate for the country's interests and protect people in the international arena "without authorization or approval." Is this how we will win? I'm sick and tired of this imitation of work and constant spokes in the wheels when our survival is at stake, and it's no exaggeration to say that it is," wrote Oleksandra Matviychuk.
"Bezugla and Tretyakova are not just crazy women. They are two pests," wrote journalist Marina Yermolaeva-Danylyuk.
"This is one of the most shameful things I have seen in the last few years. For your understanding, I constantly represent Ukraine in front of authorized persons of foreign states and representatives of international organizations, including through correspondence, telephone conversations and, I'm afraid to say, even Zoom. Under martial law. 15 years with confiscation," Valeriy Pekar wrote.
This initiative outraged Ukrainians.
In turn, the initiator of the project, Mariana Bezuhla, said that this was a "legislative joke."
"It's so cute how a compact legislative provocation works) Tomorrow I can register Russia's cancellation. But seriously, the draft law N11104 registered by Halyna and I on criminal liability for unauthorized representation of Ukraine in international negotiations is a precedent for appealing to history and a test for political discussion," she wrote.
Earlier, "Apostrophe" wrote about how Bezuhla incited the public against MPs.