How to endure?

During Friday’s broadcast of the show Shuster Live a deputy from the Party of Regions Mykhailo Chechetov unwittingly said: “That’s it! Politics is over!” Indeed, the protracted coalition disputes are a thing of the past. The Constitution of 1996 does not contain the notion of coalition. At present only a “cooperation of factions,” as defined by the Minister of Justice Oleksandr Lavrynovych, is left. However, this will bring little change. The coercion and bribery have dominated in the Rada for a long time now. Deputies belonging to no faction obediently adopt decisions necessary for the government. The situation can only get worse, with even more turncoats appearing.

The president, having heard the verdict of the court, recorded an address to the people directly from Yalta. Viktor Yanukovych did not hide his joy, he was constantly smiling with content. He reminded that the Constitution of 1996 was recognized as the best in the world, which means that coming back to it was a good thing.

The leader of the BYuT Yulia Tymoshenko stated that the resolution of the Constitutional Court requires early presidential and parliamentary elections, because both were elected under a different constitution. Arsenii Yatseniuk, the leader of the Front of Changes, made a similar statement. At this, Yatseniuk moved from words to deeds at once: he registered resolutions about holding parliamentary elections on March 27, 2011. However, obviously this bill will not get the necessary number of votes. There will be no early elections. The current government and the independent deputies they lured do not need this. One has no particular hopes from Europe either. Europeans want to wait and see what will come out of this. So far, they give very restrained evaluations. For instance, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe President Mevlut Cavusoglu sees no usurpation of power.

A people’s revolt is also not to be expected. First, political tourists and paid protesters discredited the very idea of a mass protest. Second, the previous government did not leave pleasant memories — in fact, through its disastrous policies, it brought the current regime to power.

“At present there will be a gradual extinction and death of the spiritual life of society. We are returning to the arms of ‘brotherly republics,’ they are all presidential, all are built on total subordination based on the tight hierarchy of the government pyramid. In this sense, it will take a lot of time till we return to at least the level of democracy we had during the few years of the parliamentary-presidential republic,” the famous sociologist Yevhen Holovakha predicted.

However, it is still unknown whether President Yanukovych will benefit from the unlimited power. “Rolling back” the political reform, Viktor Yanukovych should have thought about who can become president in four years. And who will get all the power. One also should not forget the end of Leonid Kuchma, who constantly lacked the authority to carry out reforms.

The people are still silent. But the key word here is “still.”