On April 26, 2022, a bill was registered in the Supreme Council of Ukraine that prohibits all members of the left, as well as members of some opposition parties, from participating in presidential elections, parliamentary deputies, city and even village councils:
https://itd.rada.gov.ua /billInfo/Bills/Card/39484.
If this bill is passed, such a ban will be in effect for 10 years.
The ban will apply to the founders and ordinary members of such parties:
- Communist Party of Ukraine,
- Socialist Party of Ukraine,
- Party "Socialists"
- Union of the Left Forces,
- Left Opposition,
- Progressive Socialist Party,
- Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united),
- "Opposition platform - for life",
- Sharia Party,
- "Our",
- Party of Regions,
- "Opposition bloc",
- "Derzhava"",
- "Vladimir Saldo Block".
Most of these parties were banned on March 20 by Zelenskiy's unconstitutional decree for the duration of martial law.
The Parliament of Ukraine is also ready to adopt a bill that will simplify the procedure for banning parties that have a different opinion from the Kyiv authorities and far-right formations about what is happening in Ukraine:
https://yur-gazeta.com/golovna/zaborona-prorosiyskih-partiy-v- ukrayini-zareestrovaniy-zakonoproekt-.html
There is little doubt that this bill will be passed. And after that, all the parties mentioned above will be completely banned for a month (such a period is specified in the bill).
Another draft law proposes to deprive all MPs of the faction of the Opposition Platform for Life party of their mandate. This is the second largest faction, representing the systemic opposition to the authorities.
Thus, in the near future, any left, even just opposition to the authorities and ultra-right, movements will be banned in Ukraine.
There is also a bill in the Supreme Council of Ukraine to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the largest religious organization in Ukraine.
But speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said that the parliament would not consider this bill until the end of the war, since it could "split society":
https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-polytics/3466735-rada-ne-rozgladatime-zaboronu-upc -mp-do-kinca-vijni-stefancuk.html.
But after the end of hostilities, the UOC may be legally banned.
Meanwhile, the priests of the UOC and its supporters, like the poet Yan Taksyur, are subjected to repression, and the UOC churches are seized by representatives of armed far-right formations in order to transfer them to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which supports the authorities.
The model of Ukraine, built since 2014, cannot exist without bans on TV channels, websites, parties, churches. Without hatred, repression and the "image of the enemy."
Therefore, it is short-lived.