The new Ukrainian Parliament goes green, just like the corporate colors of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s party Servant of the People. The party won the snap parliamentary elections on 21 July by a landslide receiving 43.16% of votes (124 seats) by the party-list voting. Additionally, the new party received 130 seats at the single-mandate (majoritarian) constituencies, making the "Servants" the first party in the history of independent Ukraine to form a single-party majority. 75% of the newly-elected MPs have never been deputies before. This means that for the first time in decades, many seemingly immortal representatives of the corrupt elite will no longer be MPs. But it also means that the "new blood" of Ukrainian politics who became deputies after the Euromaidan revolution has been replaced by seemingly miscellaneous figures propelled by the Zelenskyy brand.

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The new “majoritarians”

The region which Zelenskyy’s party lost

“Today Shakhov [with his associates] has four out of six mandates in Luhansk Oblast. He lays up claim for the role of new Yefremov [Oleksandr Yefremov, ex-head of the runaway president Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions faction in parliament], he consistently seeks to take under control the entire Luhansk Oblast. He practically has everything for it, own organized criminal group, own law enforcement forces and authorities, high ranking lobbyists and, on top of that, the ability to think strategically and act consistently,” Konstantyn Reutskyi, Vostok SOS volunteer who campaigned at one of Luhansk oblast constituencies and lost, wrote on Facebook.

“The majority of these MPs are known as ‘buttons pushers’ [those who vote for absent colleagues during the parliamentary sessions, so-called ‘piano voting’], voter bribers who provide free goods and services at the single-mandate constituencies during the work in the parliament through their charity foundations or assistants. There are subjects of the anti-corruption investigations as well,” Oksana Stavniychuk, parliamentary analyst of the CHESNO movement said.There are MPs from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and the People’s Front of Arseniy Yatseniuk who campaigned as self-nominated candidates to distance themselves from the parties with a spoiled reputation.
The MPs we won't miss

The MPs we will miss - and the new new faces

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