08 July 2011, 10:58
Mykola Tomenko: Today´s Celebration of the Pension Reform: Either the Crisis of a Genre, or Deliberate Discredit of Viktor Yanukovych
Commenting on today´s grand press conference of President Viktor Yanukovych at the Ukrainian House, Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, stated, "The team of Viktor Yanukovych seems to have set up a group that helps the opposition discredit the President of Ukraine."
"A grand press conference of the President is held in a couple of hours after adoption of the disgraceful pension reform which does not consider a single motion of the non-governmental organizations representing Chornobyl victims, veterans, sectoral trade unions and opposition," M.Tomenko stressed.
The Deputy Chairman considers it an absurdity that on the day the pension reform was adopted, the heads of regional administrations take supporters of the authorities with the Party of Regions banners to Kyiv on someone´s order.
The Deputy Chairman supposes that such celebration is not merely a blunder of the President´s team, but "an outrage upon the people who are realizing the consequences of the pension reform, while the President and the authorities celebrate this ‘outstanding´ event."