Bees against honey: The Ukrainian parliament adopted new laws to combat corruption (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Kyiv, October 06 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Deputies who did not appear at the extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada today were pelted with tomatoes. However, fortunately for the people's deputies, their suits remained clean - photographs of living deputies replaced them.
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All this happened under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada during a rally in support of the adoption of so-called anti-corruption laws, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The meeting was moderated by the head of the Ukrainian branch of the anti-corruption international organization Transparency International, a member of the national Anti-Corruption Committee under the President of Ukraine, Alexey Khmara. He said that the police did not allow a car loaded with tomatoes to enter the Verkhovna Rada, with which they planned to express their attitude towards the deputies, according to activists, who were hindering the fight against corruption.
However, some time later the tomatoes were brought to parliament in buckets.
“We will definitely establish the names of the deputies who ignored today’s meeting of the Rada,” Khmara addressed the protesters, looking at the tomatoes. “And you will get the opportunity to show them that you think about them.” You’ll find out exactly how a little later.”
However, the expectations of numerous journalists that tomatoes would fly at the deputies were not justified. In the end, everything worked out without such radical methods of influence.
Photos of deputies who did not appear at the meeting were attached to the installed stands. By the way, among them were photographs of the younger Yanukovych and Oleg Tsarev, who had not been shown in parliament for a long time. Among the characters in the impromptu photo exhibition were representatives of almost all parliamentary factions. At Khmara’s suggestion, a photograph of Gennady Moskal, recently appointed head of the Lugansk regional administration, was removed from the stand.
“He has a good reason – they’re shooting there,” Khmara said.
After that, tomatoes started flying in the photographs with the faces of politicians. It is worth noting that not all of the action participants approved of the choice of tomato vegetables as a “throwing weapon.”
“Are you showing how well-fed we are? - said the dissatisfied. - So many tomatoes - it would be better to distribute them to people who have nothing to buy bread for. G...but throw them on a shovel, but why spoil the tomatoes.”
In the session hall, everything went relatively calmly. If at the previous meeting anti-corruption bills could not get the required number of votes, then this time turnout was ensured, although there were isolated cases of illegal voting with someone else's cards.
As a result, the Rada voted in the first reading for presidential bill 5085 “On the system of specially authorized entities in the field of anti-corruption.” The document provides for the creation of a National Anti-Corruption Bureau, whose task will be to combat corrupt practices on the part of senior officials. The bureau will be led by a director appointed by the president.
Another document from the so-called anti-corruption package adopted in the first reading is bill 4284a “On the fundamentals of state anti-corruption policy in Ukraine (Anti-corruption strategy) for 2014 - 2017.” What is basically declared here is the need to create a legislative framework that would prevent the spread of corruption.
Among the innovations, it can be noted that the strategy proposes the introduction of a law providing for the legal possibility of lobbying.
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