Under the guise of decentralization, Poroshenko is trying to create an authoritarian state
President Poroshenko stated the need for judicial reform and decentralization of power not at the behest of the heart or out of “good will.”
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This opinion is expressed in an opinion column on the pages of Izvestia by Tamara Guzenkova, Deputy Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.
“The armed conflict in the south-east of Ukraine and the emergence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics became an imperative,” the political scientist explains Poroshenko’s motivation. – And the Minsk Agreements became an instrument of coercion, where separate clauses formulated provisions for the decentralization of power, including through the adoption of the Ukrainian law on the special status of the LPR and DPR - “On the temporary order of local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.” As a result, the following were born: draft law dated September 16, 2014 No. 5081 “On a special procedure for local self-government in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions” and draft law dated July 1, 2015 No. 2217a “On amendments to the Constitution in terms of decentralization.”
The author notes that the comparative analysis of the mentioned bills, the current constitution, Ukrainian laws on local self-government, on the protection of public order and many others took up a good hundred pages.
“And it led to the following main conclusion: the campaign to prepare and promote legislative initiatives regarding decentralization is in the nature of a distracting maneuver and has nothing to do with real decentralization,” summarizes Guzenkova. “On the contrary, it pursues directly opposite goals: to maintain centralization by any means, to strengthen control over the regions, to create a system in which any manifestations of disagreement can be interpreted as separatism and immediately suppressed by local intelligence services with the support and patronage of the “prefects.” Thus, the current version of decentralization represents a neo-centralization scenario.”
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