So-called “reformers” are leaving their positions in Ukraine because the top leadership of the state does not have the political will to fight corruption.
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People's Deputy Sergei Leshchenko stated this on the air of the talk show “Hear Ukraine” on the ZIK TV channel.
“Sakvaleridze, Kasko, Pivovarsky, Abromavicius and the like. All reformers are leaving not because they changed their minds about working for Ukraine, but because their efforts were in vain. They feel it. They are not stupid people because they have effective management experience,” he noted.
According to the MP, one of the innovations to overcome corruption should be transparent competitions for filling positions in the public sector, in particular at strategic enterprises,” he says.
However, according to the people's deputy, thanks to the opposition of the presidential team, the efforts of the “reformers” came to naught.
“Abromavicius proposed appointing independent directors to all state-owned enterprises. It was a good idea, for example, to eliminate Kononenko’s “supervisors” from large enterprises, but there would be an effective manager, chosen on a competitive basis, with a decent salary. However, Abromavicius managed to hold two competitions, and that was all. Now all public competitions are being cancelled, one after another.
Thus, at Centerenergo, following a claim from some senile grandmother, they stopped the selection of applicants for the position of manager, because she suddenly had 1/100th of the company’s shares, so the entire competition should be blocked. But this is a screen, because Igor Kononenko is behind it. It was he who gave instructions to stop the selection, since it is from Centrenergo that the entire presidential clan feeds. The situation is similar in other large state-owned companies. After that, the very idea of public competitions went to waste,” Sergei Leshchenko convinces.
According to Leshchenko, the state leadership does not have the political will to take effective steps in the fight against corruption.
“The President and his team should not allow corrupt officials to gain access to state economic and managerial resources,” says the MP.