Zelensky Announces Ban on 11 Political Parties

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Ukrainian president claims opposition parties have ties to Russia

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a measure that bans 11 opposition political parties, alleging they have ties to Russia, he announced in a Telegram video posted on March 20.

โ€œAny activity of politicians aimed at splitting or collaborating will not succeed,โ€ he said.

Zelensky also said that โ€œwartime exposes quite well the paucity of personal ambitions of those who try to put their own ambitionsโ€ or โ€œtheir own party or career above the interests of the state,โ€ according to a translation.

The parties that have been banned, he said, include โ€œOpposition Platformโ€”For Life, Sharijโ€™s Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Derzhava, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialists, and Volodymyr Saldoโ€™s Bloc,โ€ according to Ukrinform.

The National Security Council agreed to suspend the parties, Ukrinform reported, citing Zelenskyโ€™s video address.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice has been told to immediately take measures to ban those political parties, he said. Zelensky didnโ€™t provide evidence that linked the 11 opposition parties to the Russian government.

At the onset of the Feb. 24 invasion, Zelensky signed a measure that established martial law and general mobilization.

Zelensky said on March 20 that โ€œactivities by politicians aimed at discord and collaboration will not succeed,โ€ adding that alleged links between Russia and โ€œsome political structures, the activities of a number of political parties are suspended for the period of the martial law.โ€

The president alsoย signedย a decree that would combine all national TV channels into one platform, citing the martial law provision.

During anย interviewย with CNN, Zelensky said heโ€™s ready for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and claimed that should negotiations fail, it would lead to an escalation of the conflict.

โ€œI think we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War,โ€ he told the network on March 20.

Byย Jack Phillips

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