Talk:Iryna Vereshchuk

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Party?

I don't understand what the deal is with Vereshchuk's party.

On the Ukrainian page it says that she is "безпартійна", with a link to this page: https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2019/wp407pt001f01=919pf7201=18517 - the details on her registration as a deputy following the 2019 elections. It indeed says "безпартійнa".

So it's possible to be on a party list yet not be part of that party?

Also, she IS part of the Servant of the People faction in the Rada, and listed as such on the parliament's site: https://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/page/21010. So is the Ukrainian page just wrong? (note: My attempt to change her party to Servant of the People on Ukrainian wiki was immediately rejected without any explanation). YantarCoast (talk) 15:35, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect she is one of the politicians who were elected to the Verkhovna Rada by Servant of the People, but are not members of the party. There is a whole Wikipedia category of politicians who were elected to the Verkhovna Rada by Batkivshchyna, but are not members of the party. (I do not see the point in investing my time to create a similar category for Servant of the People btw....) Also according to "Servant" party leader Oleksandr Kornienko only a third of the party's parliamentary faction is a member of the party (a number that surprised me personally as being really low....). I have never come across a rule that says a candidate in a Ukrainian election must be a member of the party in order to be nominated by this party (nor did I ever see a rule that a candidate in a Ukrainian election can be nominated by a party she/he is not a member of). There have been quite a lot of independent politicians on party list over the years, so I am inclined to believe this is legal. — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 18:03, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]