Mykola Tomenko: There will be an Effective Opposition in the Parliament
Mykola Tomenko, the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is convinced that there would be an effective and European coalition in the Parliament. It was declared by him in the course of the meeting of Viktor Yanukovych, the President of Ukraine with the Leaders of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Heads of the Parliamentary factions Party of Regions, Lytvyn Bloc, Our Ukraine-People´s Self-Defence and the Communist Party of Ukraine.
In the course of the conversation, the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine declared that YTB would be acting as a oppositional power in the Parliament. "We are convinced that an effective, European parliamentary opposition will be an essential and useful democracy instrument in the country", - he announced.
The Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada also pointed out the President´s attention on the fact that during several last days, a number of anticonstitutional steps were made in the informational sphere. In particular he stated that, for the first time, in the history of Ukraine "at the suit of one of the Russian music channels that are in the group of "Inter" television company, Kyiv County Administrative Court actually dismissed from their offices two members of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting Matters Tetiana Lebedeva and Viktor Ponedilok." M. Tomenko emphasized that appointing and dismissal of National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting Matters members is exclusively under the authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and announced that he would initiate the scrutiny of this issue in the Verkhovna Rada and would demand the adequate reaction of the President of Ukraine on these illegal actions.
Concerning the issues of common interest of coalition and opposition, M. Tomenko named the basic principles of the elections to the local self-government bodies.