Mykola Tomenko: Standing on Maidan Square does not mean being Maidan
Speaking on the results of the action of protest against Tax Code in the air of "Chorne ta Bile" ("Black and White") program on TBi channel, Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, explained that according to him it is a mistake to speak on the further political demands from the small and medium business. Furthermore, he is convinced that the opposition should have consolidates success first of all and only after that think over next steps.
M. Tomenko emphasised that it was necessary to consolidate this victory and success first of all as far as it was action of economic character and action of all the small and medium business. "In fact the action was not the political one, thus its politicization seemed quite not natural", he explained. The Deputy Chairman does not share the idea on conduction of referendum to conduct the early parliamentary and presidential elections. "I see neither referendum instruments, nor the opportunity for the condition of early parliamentary and presidential elections", he stressed. "We can not offer something that we are not able to implement", the politician added.
M. Tomenko is convinced that the President and his team chose a good tactics when annulled a number of Code´s principles. He emphasised that the fundamental economic requirement was satisfied, though he is convinced that "there were more democratic solutions of the Maidan situation."
Speaking on the opposition actions, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stressed that "we should have declared that we coped with "minimum" program and explain it to everyone that it is a great step." "It is a great victory of the society and oppositions since V. Yanukovych have occupied the Presidential chair", M. Tomenko stated.
Moreover, speaking on the protest action organization, Mykola Tomenko declared that its is fallacious to compare the action with the events of Orange Revolution and Maidan 2004 since it used to be world-concept protest, and now it is the economic one. "Standing on Maidan does not mean being Maidan", he stated.