Ukraine’s largest and, according to recent polls, most popular opposition party could be prohibited under proposals put forward by a major city council, just weeks after opposition-owned TV channels were banned from the airwaves.
Local deputies from Lvov, near the Polish border, voted through the motion on Thursday. In it, they demand that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky act to outlaw the Opposition Platform – for Life (OPZZh). The party, which has the second highest number of seats in the national parliament after Zelensky’s own Servant of the People, draws much of its support from ethnic Russian speakers and those living in the East of the country. It has consistently criticized the escalation of tensions with Moscow since Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan.
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