"The main question, why I came to you with my colleagues, is to charge you with this energy, so that you understand: we will not and do not want to influence you, but we really want, as people who represent society, I, as the elected president, really want you to know that your hands are not tied. Please, we really want all top corrupt officials to really receive deserved sentences. Because society will never forgive us for this."

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah protests convinced him there is no questions there. Also it could have been predicted by anyone with functioning brain, which tells me that either Ze doesn't understand laws that he signs or he can't arrive to extremely simple idea that making independent anticorruptions agency depend on those that they should in theory prosecute is a dumb move even if his friend will suffer in consequence.

I mean, in the end everyone will probably 'win' in this situation. Ze will get his approval boost for listening to people, SBU will get whatever dirt they wanted out of NABU hands and a few r*ssian agents and assets, NABU will be idependent again.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

It could also be that Zelenskyy still thinks it's a needed tool, but it's willing to bow to the will of the people. That's the most charitable interpretation, because it's the opposite of authoritarianism: a leader going against their own opinion in favor of their constituency.

I have to say, I like Zelenskyy. Maybe he's the right person at the right time, and maybe he wouldn't have been a great peacetime leader, but he seems to have done well for Ukraine during this crisis.