Not Everyone in Servant of the People Backs Lifting Immunity, Arakhamia Says

A number of deputies believe that "this issue needs to be looked at anew."

About 15% of the elected deputies from the Servant of the People party are not ready to support a full repeal of parliamentary immunity. David Arakhamia shared these impressions after a week-long training course in Truskavets on the air of NV Radio. He is being called the future leader of the faction in parliament.

According to Arakhamia, despite the fact that all candidates spoke in favour of repealing parliamentary immunity and signed a corresponding memorandum with the party, during the training in Truskavets he noticed that there is no unified opinion within the party on this step.

David Arakhamia, elected deputy from the Servant of the People party

There are about 15% of them among the majoritarian deputies. Among the list deputies there are far fewer. And the majoritarians say: “I’m a majoritarian, this is my district, people voted for me. Why should I be accountable

Arakhamia himself supports the possibility of holding deputies accountable only for criminal offences, but not for political statements.

David Arakhamia, elected deputy from the Servant of the People party

We cannot prosecute a deputy’s thoughts, because that would be a dictatorship, not a democracy. But if he commits a criminal offence, including corruption, then we must have some levers to stop such cases

Earlier, David Arakhamia said that the Servant of the People party plans to introduce artificial intelligence to track anomalies during parliamentary votes.

David Arakhamia is being called the future leader of the presidential party's faction in the Verkhovna Rada, but not everyone is happy about this. A few weeks ago, another elected Servant of the People deputy, Oleksandr Dubinsky, criticised this option.

“As for Arakhamia, who the f*** knows where he even came from. It’s the same as going to Auchan and choosing a faction leader there,” the 1+1 journalist wondered.