Vitali Klitschko's UDAR party has offered the opposition political forces a plan of action in the new parliament.
“The UDAR Party has offered the democratic forces to adopt a joint
plan of actions in the new parliament. UDAR believes that this document
should be signed by the leaders of the opposition forces, as well as by
every member of parliament who wants to change power in Ukraine and
carry out democratic reforms,” reads a statement posted on the party’s
Web site.
In particular, the plan suggests removing Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych’s regime from power and releasing political prisoners.
“Today we not only have a common enemy, an authoritarian corrupt
regime, but also a common goal to make Ukraine into a modern democratic
and fair country,” the plan says.
The priority determined by UDAR for turning Ukraine into a
full-fledged European democratic state is the elimination of the current
“corruption and the introduction of new rules governing the functioning
of the country’s political and economic systems.”
UDAR proposes to change the Ukrainian legislation, specifically, to
create an independent anti-corruption agency, which will begin
anti-corruption lustration, which will involve the prosecution of
corrupt officials, judges, and law enforcement officials.
The plan also proposes to adopt a law on the procedures governing the
impeachment of the Ukrainian president and the creation of a
provisional investigations commission of the Ukrainian parliament on
issues relating to the removal of Viktor Yanukovych from power. “We will
begin the procedure for impeaching the current president of the
country,” the plan says.
The party also proposes to introduce a two-round procedure for
electing city mayors and deprive the president and the parliament of
appointing judges, giving this right to the High Council of Justice.
The document also talks about the reduction of the number of taxes,
the creation of incentives for new jobs, a fair pension reform, and the
adoption of laws governing the land market.
