02 November 2010, 16:11
Mykola Tomenko: If the Authorities fail to launch the Struggle against Corruption, not 20, but 50 per cent of the Citizens will be ready to sell their Vote on the Elections
Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is of the negative opinion that two anti-corruption drafts on the conflict of interests in the activity of the public officers were referred to the repeated first reading.
M.Tomenko highlighted a dangerous tendency that revealed itself at the local elections. "Public opinion polls claim that 20 per cent of the citizens are ready to sell their vote, and, correspondingly, their conscience," the politician stated. He considers these people to be honest pragmatists, as other citizens who sold their votes did not confess it.
The Deputy Chairman supposes that cynicism of such behaviour equals the cynicism of power. "If the authorities fail to launch the struggle against corruption, 50 per cent of the citizens will claim no difference between the parties, but judge from the sums of money they would pay them," M.Tomenko stated. He called for supporting the bills mentioned. "The Parliament should initiate such bills to set the example of fighting corruption," he declared.