MP Yevhen Tsarkov of the Communist Party fraction has said he hopes that Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych will veto the law on pension reform adopted by the Verkhovna Rada.
"We hope that the president will veto [the law], and we will cancel all those rules related to the change in the retirement age," he told reporters on Friday.
According to him, those who voted for the pension reform, looked like "beaten dogs," because they understood that they would have to go back to election districts to run for the parliament in the 2012 election.
"The vast majority of those who voted for this law firmly believe that Yanukovych will now veto the law, it (the law) will return to parliament, and the scenario with the Tax Code will be repeated," he said.
According to Tsarkov, the vote for the pension reform was most likely the result of "blackmailing by the International Monetary Fund."
The adoption of the pension reform in Ukraine is one of the conditions for getting the third tranche of the IMF loan under the stand by arrangement.
