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The Verkhovna Rada’s First Vice President Ruslan Stefanchuk admitted that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy can pay for himself the costs of conducting a survey across Ukraine.
Verkhovna Rada First Vice President, Verkhovna Rada Presidential Representative Ruslan Stefanchuk, on the air of channel 1 + 1 on October 15, said that Ukrainians may be “surprised” by the source of funding for the poll launched. by the head of state Volodymyr Zelensky.
The study named different sources of funding: public, private, political party funds, donor funds, and others.
“It will not be from the state budget … Who will fund it? He has not listed all the methods. I think we will all be pleasantly surprised, because both the implementation method and the financing method will fully comply with the law,” Stefanchuk said.
When asked if this means that Zelensky will fund the poll, the vice president replied: “This is a possible option.”
On October 13, Zelenskiy said that on local election day, Ukrainians will be asked to answer “five important questions.” He did not specify what citizens would be asked about and how the survey would be conducted.
The Central Electoral Commission reported that they are not preparing the survey. The president’s office stressed that the results of the survey will have no legal consequences.
Later it was learned that the survey will include the following questions:
- Is it necessary to introduce life imprisonment for corruption on an especially large scale?
- Do you support the creation of a free economic zone in Donbas?
- Do you support reducing the number of popular deputies to 300?
- Do you support the legalization of cannabis for medical purposes, to reduce pain in critically ill patients?
- Do you support Ukraine’s right to use the security guarantees defined by the Budapest Memorandum to restore its state sovereignty and territorial integrity?
The people’s deputy of the “Servant of the People”, Yevhenia Kravchuk, said that in the near future in Ukraine they will officially represent a public organization that will deal with a survey in Ukraine together with sociologists. He stressed that the survey will be funded by sponsors at the expense of funds of “Ukrainian origin.”
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