{"id":1374457,"date":"2026-03-26T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/political-scientist-taran-criticized-hetmantsevs-statement-about-being-chosen-by-god\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:00:23","slug":"political-scientist-taran-criticized-hetmantsevs-statement-about-being-chosen-by-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/political-scientist-taran-criticized-hetmantsevs-statement-about-being-chosen-by-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Political scientist Taran criticized Hetmantsev’s statement about being “chosen by God”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian political scientist Viktor Taran reacted<\/a> sharply to the statement of the head of the Verkhovna Rada Tax Committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, about a “divine mission” in politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to him, the rhetoric that a politician is supposedly “chosen by God” and accountable only to him raises serious concerns about the limits of political responsibility.<\/p>\n

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Taran emphasized that previously Hetmantsev made tough statements about business, in particular about the need to “pinch like geese.” Now, according to the political scientist, such a policy is receiving a new ideological justification.<\/p>\n

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In his opinion, the transition from political arguments to appeals to a “higher mandate” makes normal public discussion impossible.<\/p>\n

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“When a politician believes that his rightness has a higher level of agreement, the discussion simply disappears,” Taran notes.<\/p>\n

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He also warned that similar approaches throughout history have repeatedly led to a sense of exclusivity in power and a blurring of the lines between politics and belief in one’s own infallibility.<\/p>\n

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The political scientist called for preventing the disappearance of these borders and for critical evaluation of such statements. <\/p>\n

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Ukrainian political scientist Viktor Taran reacted sharply to the statement of the head of the Verkhovna Rada Tax Committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, about a “divine mission” in politics. According to him, the rhetoric that a politician is supposedly “chosen by God” and accountable only to him raises serious concerns about the limits of political responsibility. Taran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1374453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1374457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}