“As of to date I have not written any statement about the resignation as chairman of the political council. I think that soon the political council will meet again. Probably, there have been talks that technically I cannot function as chairman of the political council, but the party has a sufficient amount of bodies that can perform these functions. I think that the political council should meet again and carefully analyze their decision. I do not want anyone have an impression that I usurped power in the party. In our party everyone is equal and the extended political council may adopt different resolutions. But I think that the decision should be weighted and agreed with all members of the political council. In addition, when a party leader is elected according to our method, he becomes a member of the party who has the highest ratings. I think that the party is able to hold these primaries. I do not want to comment on the decision that was made public. Again I want to emphasize that the political council should meet again and discuss it. I did not give consent to step aside the deputy head of the political council. Perhaps this is a technical solution. I cannot comment yet because I have limited communication here, I talk only with my lawyers. I find it difficult to say what the members of the presidium of the political council were technically guided by when convening the meeting. The party, first of all, is people, and not one person, as some may think. And in our country, politics and changes are made by people. Maidan was also made by people, not parties.
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We are ready to hear the case on the merits so that various villains like Kutsenko would not tell on TV about some criminal group. A criminal group is, in fact, the GPU led by Shokin who organized it. I believe that the time will come when they sit in my place in this cell, and we will witness it. I want to remind everyone how the prosecution behaved at the time of Yanukovych, when Tymoshenko was brought to trial. If you remember, they charged Tymoshenko with contract murders of Hetman, Scherban and someone else, gas schemes.
At the same time the prosecution appeared on TV screens in the same cynical manner as Kutsenko does today and poured mud on people, on the politician of European dimension. They can easily on a man. Today they say that I headed an organized criminal group. If it is UKROP that is called an organized criminal group, then yes, I headed it. In addition, as vice-governor I led the Dnipropetrovsk administration and defended the country. Is it the defense of the country that is called an organized criminal group - think for yourself. Think whom you believe. Listen to what they say. These are all lies and provocation. All of these “Notes of a Madman” that they show is an absolute lie. I never had any "black" or "gray" accounting at home. Therefore, what they show has no relation to any facts and evidence. Make historical parallels. We have seen all this before. Today they descend to what Yanukovych did in his time. They decided to open a criminal case against my lawyers. You know what I mean? I will explain what the technical details are. If they bring the lawyers as suspects in criminal cases, then they will not be able to defend me. Just think what we will come to, what the country will come to. Tomorrow you will find yourselves in my place, and your lawyers will be suspects. And we will have only prosecutors.
