“Turn off the madness! You’re tearing the party apart!” Tishchenko causes scandal in Servant of the People majoritarian chat — correspondence

A conflict broke out in the chat of majoritarian deputies from the Servant of the People faction.

A working conflict broke out between MPs Orest Salamakha and Mykola Tishchenko in the intra-factional chat of majoritarian deputies from the Servant of the People party, called “SN Majors”.

The conflict between the deputies was recorded by journalist Oleksiy Lypovetsky exclusively for TK Media (to see the full correspondence, scroll to the end of the article).

The conflict reportedly concerned the procedure for allocating subsidies for constituencies.

“So if you got 90%, you’re allowed more than everyone else? Do you think you’re better than us?” wrote People’s Deputy Orest Salamakha, elected in constituency 121 (Lviv region).

“Absolutely not, there must be transparent rules of the game, not backroom deals organized by the Finance Ministry. And direct your complaint at whoever organized them. And they must be punished,” wrote a contact with a phone number belonging to Servant of the People MP Zinoviy Myroslavovych Andreyevych, elected in constituency 87 in Ivano-Frankivsk region. 

“Orest!!! Maybe you could turn off the madness and start writing on your own...???” replied Tishchenko to his colleague Orest Salamakha, elected in constituency 121. 

In response, MP Ihor Nihulevsky sent three parentheses: “)))”.

A contact saved in Tishchenko’s phone as “The One Sitting Inside Me” reacted to Nihulevsky’s remark: “When his [presumably Salamakha’s] classmate goes to work and gets the contracts!”.

Tishchenko countered: “What do 90%, 1%, ??? have to do with it? DON’T LOSE THE POINT!!!!! You’re tearing the party apart!!!!! OK.”

“Kolya, with all due respect to you and other colleagues, the procedure is as follows...,” wrote MP Salamakha and laid out the procedure.

“Sasha Trukhin, when classmates go to work ))) you won’t have to work anymore,” replied Tishchenko to the contact “The One Sitting Inside Me”. Alexander Trukhin is a People’s Deputy elected in constituency 40 (Dnipropetrovsk region).

Earlier in the day, the Telegram channel “Dark Knight”, which positions itself as an anonymous majoritarian people’s deputy from the Servant of the People faction, accused Trukhin of embezzling funds meant for social assistance. A TK Media source with ties to the presidential faction, but not a member of this chat, suggests the deputies’ discussion concerned this issue.

Earlier in the day, Ilya Kiva was drawing during a session of the Verkhovna Rada, and afterwards trolled our photojournalist.