Mykola Tomenko: A Unique Temporary Anti-Government Coalition has been set up at the Parliament
At the today´s briefing, Mykola Tomenko, Vice-Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, summarized the activity of the Parliament during the recent session week. He stated that the Parliament acted as a higher representative State-building institute, having adopted a number of important Laws.
However, during the scrutiny of certain Bills, the Parliament remained a place of election discussion and fight. Mykola Tomenko stated that a number of important Bills failed to be adopted.
According to the Vice-Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a temporary anti-government coalition including the Party of Regions, the Communist Party, the pro-presidential part of "Our Ukraine" and the Lytvyn Bloc was set up at the Parliament. The said members jointly vote for many crucial issues. Mykola Tomenko is surprised by the fact that the representatives of "Our Ukraine" faction vote jointly with the Communist Party members. "It is significant that four governmental Bills of institutional, not ideological or political, nature have not been endorsed. The Bill on the open lists to the local self-government bodies was not adopted, although all the teams and the candidates for presidency declare its support" stressed M.Tomenko.
"The failure to adopt a number of absolutely unbiased Bills, a common stand regarding the Bill on the social standards suggest that the official election agents of Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko use common guidelines making decisions", - stated M.Tomenko.
However, Mykola Tomenko stated that the BYuT Faction tolerated the coalition. He added: "We have always objected against temporality. If V.Yanukovych and V.Yushchenko managed to set up a new coalition, it should be announced the next plenary week. It is necessary to act in a public, clear-cut and explicit way", - he stated.