Parlamentarian immunity makes it possible to avoid political persecution!

People’s deputy of Ukraine, Yuri Miroshnychenko commented on the situation with the removal of immunity from People’s Deputy Stanislav Berezkin, in the morning broadcast of the TV channel “News One”.

“Society perceives” parliamentary immunity “as a formal permission for a deputy to do anything and not to bear responsibility for their wrongful acts. As a lawyer, I would like to emphasize that on the legal side what is called immunity as such is not. In fact, this is a special procedure for prosecution, and it is not connected with the fact that deputies are allowed everything, but in order to prevent the use of criminal investigation as a means of political struggle “, – said the parliamentarian.

Yuri Miroshnychenko emphasized that in the last convocation at the appeals of the general prosecutors, in the vast majority of deputies voted for the possibility of conducting investigative actions and the removal of immunity.

“Today it is important to prevent manipulation and populism on this topic. And be guided only by legal facts and law “, – concluded Yuri Miroshnychenko.