The Poroshenko administration is “sinking” in the Rada a bill on deductions for culture from the gambling business
The bill “On the Ukrainian Cultural Fund” No. 5491 dated December 06.12.2016, 3597, whose initiators include the head of the parliamentary committee on culture and spirituality Mykola Knyazhytsky and his first deputy Irina Podolyak, is a sham and its adoption means blocking the bill on the state fund for humanitarian development No. 01.11.2016 dated November XNUMX, XNUMX, which provides for the transfer of part of the profits of the gambling business to support Ukrainian culture.
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This was stated by the author of the bill on the state fund for humanitarian development, Natalya Zabolotnaya, founder of the Art Ukraine Foundation.
“Our initiative for a bill on the Humanitarian Development Fund is being banned in every possible way, they are not giving it any air. The other day, “prospectors” from the Presidential Administration registered a law on the Ukrainian cultural fund. Although the AP signed me up as one of its initiators, I have nothing to do with their imitation of reform. I was the initiator of only the law on the state fund for humanitarian development,” says Zabolotnaya.
According to her, Bankova’s strange behavior was simply explained to her - that supposedly big people don’t like that “dirty money” can go to culture, science and children’s sports.
“That is why their fake law on the cultural fund somehow miraculously came up for discussion at the National Reform Council, although there is no evidence that it was supported there. The surprising thing is that there is no reform in their creation. Their version is another budget feeder, a new manual department of the Ministry of Culture. But we all know very well how much and successfully our ministry has “reformed” in culture over the past 25 years,” she said.
According to her, the alternative law was made precisely in order to somehow weaken the initiative for a state fund for humanitarian development.
“Their law did not undergo public discussion, was prepared very behind the scenes in the Presidential Administration and was not even presented to any authoritative independent experts before being introduced into parliament. As a result, officials will try to get the next approval from loyal circles and convince everyone that public discussions will take place retroactively. The bottom line is that “dirty money,” as they put it, will go to the right people in the dirty pockets, and science, culture and children’s sports will be tolerated,” says Zabolotnaya.
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