Speaking before the people who filled European Square on that day, Bloc leader Yuriy Lutsenko promised that "Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense" would make people out of politicians. "We will do everything so that our politicians abide by the laws just like ordinary Ukrainians, we will minimize the distance between the former 'celestials' – deputies – and ordinary people. The law will be one for all. It is precisely for this that we launched the action 'Touch the Deputy.' We will collect millions of signatures from our citizens so that with their help we can 'pressure' the people's deputies in the parliament of the sixth convocation and force them to support such a decision."
Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, in turn, added: "No one from the electoral list of the Bloc 'Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense' will become a candidate for people's deputy until they sign an obligation to relinquish their parliamentary immunity after being elected as a people's deputy. We have made such a decision and are waiting for a response from our political opponents. However, they are silent, because none of them wants to abolish immunity. But we will force them to do so: both the communists, and the socialists, and the 'regionalists.' We will not leave them a single chance to turn the Ukrainian parliament into a source of corruption."
In parallel with the capital, the action "Touch the Deputy" began in Lviv and Chernihiv. Within a few days, mobile brigades of volunteers will deploy their mobile stations throughout Ukraine. Every Ukrainian will be able to put their signature under the demand to abolish parliamentary immunity. The collected millions of signatures, which will attest to the will of the people, will force the deputies who make it into the parliament of the sixth convocation to give up the "umbrella" that protects them from the laws – parliamentary immunity.
"Parliamentary immunity means impunity, which entails 'lawlessness,'" said during the start of the action "Touch the Deputy" Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who together with Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko has been on vacation since today, and therefore has the full right to make political statements and participate in political actions.
Speaking about the deputies who, in the end, should be servants of the people, Yatsenyuk noted: "They drive expensive cars that are registered to their drivers, hit children with these cars and bear no responsibility for it," Yatsenyuk stated. "They register shell companies and don't pay taxes. That is why the state budget has no money to pay decent salaries and pensions to ordinary people. This is definitely not the country we want to build."
"People who go to parliament to work, to write laws, don't need immunity," added Anatoliy Hrytsenko. "Our political team has made up its mind – we don't need immunity. The law should be one for all 47 million Ukrainians. That is how it should be for 450 people's deputies. Those who go to parliament to steal, to lobby their own interests – of course, seek to hide from the law. But we won't let them do it."
The people who gathered on that day in the squares of Kyiv, Lviv and Chernihiv are in complete solidarity with the politicians from the Bloc "Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense." This was evidenced by the long queues of those wishing to put their signatures under the demand to abolish parliamentary immunity. Within a few days, the collection of signatures will unfold throughout Ukraine. And politicians who wish to get into parliament will have no choice but to voluntarily give up parliamentary immunity in order to finally start working for the good of Ukraine. The time of political corruption has passed, the parliament of the sixth convocation will be renewed, cleansed and principled. This is what "Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense" is striving for – and will achieve.