Saturday, 19 May 2012

Interviews

Viktor Pynzenyk: “We have never been partners with Russia”



(4.01.2011)

Milan Lelich, Glavred

With the year coming to its end, authorities have finally started implementing long-awaited ‘system reforms’. Authorities have decided to defuse a huge social outcry caused by the adoption of a new Tax Code by starting an administrative reform, shuffling central executive bodies and promising massive public staff reduction. But oppositional forces and independent experts won’t stop saying that the administrative reform has just scratched the surface and is not going to result in a higher quality of public government.

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Andriy Magera: The Law on the Local Elections has failed



(02.11.2010)

Ludmyla Dolgopolova, Kommersant-Ukraine

Local elections, which have taken place in Ukraine, have demonstrated that the Law on the Local Elections leaves much to be desired, says Andriy Magera, Deputy Chair of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine. In his interview with Kommersant-Ukraine, he says what changes have to be made in the legislation, what the 2006 and 2010 elections had in common and who has the right to become a mayor.

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Members of different Verkhovna Rada factions answer the same questions



(09.06.10)

By Valentyn Shtormovyi, Stolychni Novyny

“Servants of people” appear in… Zoo classes?

Politicians are about to get down to the practices of “relating to people” again. The local elections are looming ahead. The Verkhovna Rada is likely to pass a decision to return to the majoritarian or at least mixed election system for its “little brothers” in the local councils. Judging by the past experience, the candidates for the local “people’s servants” can be subdivided into three major “families”.

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Ukrainian judicial system reform: two similar opinions



(08.06.10)



Valeriy Pysarenko: “The proposed bill on the national judicial system is a brand new law totally in compliance with the Constitution currently in force and the EU and CE legislation. This law will ensure Ukraine’s integration in European legal space”.

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Volodymyr Lytvyn: Members of Parliament start fighting, blockade a switch room and toilets on cue



(12.01.10)



Several days are left before the presidential election, but some parties and political blocs have already started preparing for early parliamentary election. It seems to be quite a wise move since there is no doubt if a newly elected president fails to win support of the majority of Members of Ukraine’s Parliament, they will try to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada instead. Whatever the case, Ukraine is obviously in bad need of a change of the present electoral system as the election with closed lists of candidates has proven lame. Is there a chance MPs might agree to change something about it? What electoral system would be the best choice for Ukraine? Volodymyr Lytvyn, Verkhovna Rada Speaker, answers these and other questions in his interview with Fakty.

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