01 November 2012, 13:43
“Participants of election races should hold a demobilization and understand that elections are over and we need to think about practical work now, about how to get the dialogue going and determine common approaches to further work in the country,” stressed the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn in his interview to the Rada TV Channel on Thursday.
V. Lytvyn noted that all newly elected deputies should understand that they are people’s representatives and recognize their responsibility before people, and offer their vision of country’s development, the one that would be incorporated into adoption of specific decision.
The Head of the Parliament noted that representatives of opposition should also take active part in the work of the Verkhovna Rada, and propose their solutions to the problems. “Then, it will be visible what decisions are supported, and what – not; and they will be able to talk about disagreement and demonstrate their opposition,” he said and added: “Bare denial is absolutely unacceptable.”
Answering the questions, V. Lytvyn stressed that people’s deputies should unite around “basic issues” of domestic and foreign policy, as well as solve “pressing and key” social problems offering better solutions.
In this context, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada expressed his opinion about the necessity to leave behind the practice of “office distribution” and, respectively, of increasing the number of committees at the Parliament. “At the beginning, everyone says it is necessary to have as few committees as possible, so that their obligations are not duplicated, but when it comes to dividing offices, it turns out that there is not enough of them, and the number of committees grows,” he said.
“I am convinced that any problems can be solved in the process of work. The main thing here is to have a dialogue in regard to national problems,” summed up V. Lytvyn.
Answering the question about the efficiency of the newly elected parliament, V. Lytvyn noted that efficiency of its work could be measured not by the number of decisions taken, but by the extent of their implementation and correspondence to people’s expectations.
Every political faction and every people’s deputy, believes V. Lytvyn, have to understand that “people’s liking can change very rapidly – from general adoration to negligence, and even to hatred,” and therefore, “it is necessary to act as responsibly as possible, and, preferably, professionally too.”