Ukrainian experts believe that there will no longer be any dismissals because of the situation with the tax code.
"[Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych] has already dismissed a deputy finance minister. I don’t think there will be any further dismissals, because the president and his team don’t want this," Director of the Center for Political and Conflict Studies Mykhailo Pohrebynsky said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.
He also ruled out the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
"His time has not yet come," the analyst said.
Head of the Ukrainian Barometer Sociological Service and political analyst Viktor Nebozhenko, who also participated in the press conference, said that that Chairman of the State Committee for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship Mykhailo Brodsky would not be sacked.
"He will come in handy during the struggle while drafting the next code. I think that he will find new arguments, as his particular sincerity, along with complete passivity in other policy areas, will yet be involved," Nebozhenko said.
As reported, Yanukovych said earlier that he could dismiss a number of officials involved in the drafting of the Tax Code, because "we saw people who, by and large, drafted the Tax Code from their own point of view, rather than from the point of view of the state."
On December 3, the president signed a decree dismissing Tetiana Yefymenko as Ukraine’s deputy finance minister.
Yefymenko was dismissed under paragraph 3, part 1, Article 30 of the law on civil service (the retirement age for civil servants). Under another decree, the president conferred the second rank of civil servant to Yefymenko "for her conscientious work and in connection with retirement."
Yefymenko is one of the Tax Code authors. On December 5, she turned 60.
