Dubinsky Fights With His Own Party. Is There a Split in Servant of the People?
He criticizes Arakhamia and Razumkov and calls the Servant of the People party the 'Servant of the IMF'. Are Kolomoisky's problems starting?
People's Deputy from the Servant of the People faction Oleksandr Dubinsky, who is linked to Ihor Kolomoisky, has in recent days sharply criticized his fellow party members and the leadership of the political force.
Dubinsky has criticized the party and the authorities before, but in the past few days his criticism has become more frequent.
On October 2 he sarcastically reacted to a photo of Zelensky, Honcharuk and Bohdan with the heads of the NBU — Yakiv Smoliy and Kateryna Rozhkova.
He also criticized the inclusion on the agenda of the repeal of the moratorium on land sales, which Zelensky has been actively supporting publicly.
On Thursday he criticized the head of the Verkhovna Rada and (still) of the Servant of the People, Dmytro Razumkov, for removing from the agenda a resolution on creating a temporary investigative commission, which Dubinsky intended to head in order to investigate the NBU leadership.
He called his own party the 'Servant of the IMF'. For him, the IMF is evil.
He again attacked the Speaker of Parliament.
On Friday he again clashed with the faction head Davyd Arakhamia (conflicts occurred even before the new Verkhovna Rada convened).
He mocked fellow party members Roman Hryshchuk and Roksolana Pidlasa for supporting sole proprietors (FOPs).
Serhiy Leshchenko, who sought to join the Servant of the People party but was neither included on the list nor nominated in a single-mandate district (he ultimately ran in the elections himself but lost to the Servant of the People candidate Anna Bondar), confirms that Dubinsky's behavior may be linked to worsening relations between Zelensky and Kolomoisky.
Investment banker at Dragon Capital and expert Serhiy Fursa believes that the IMF set two tasks for the Ukrainian government: the independence of the NBU and the stability of PrivatBank:
“I see the result [of the negotiations with the IMF] like this: the IMF, roughly speaking, said the following: ‘Guys, you are either reformers or you are with Kolomoisky. If you are reformers, prove it without crossing two red lines. The first red line is any compromise with Kolomoisky over PrivatBank. The second red line is the independence of the central bank.’ The IMF left, leaving our government this homework. Recently Zelensky visited the National Bank, and it looks like an attempt to show the IMF that we, so to speak, fully support the NBU and there are and cannot be any questions about its complete independence. This is the first stage. As for how they will try to resolve the situation with PrivatBank, it is unknown yet, but I think we will see soon”, said Fursa.
If Fursa's assumptions are correct, it is not excluded that the IMF is forcing the government to break with Kolomoisky, and this is why Dubinsky, who is linked to the oligarch, is behaving this way. But will Zelensky go all the way, or will he still decide to make a deal?
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