KHARKIV - Former Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Davit Sakvarelidze has announced plans to create a new political party.
“Consultations with all the adequate political and civil organizations are very actively underway to create the first adequate political force in Ukraine, the first precedent of adequate political platform, which will not be a project of oligarchs or of the president or a temporary political project doomed to failure and interfering with the development of the country,” Sakvarelidze said at a press conference in Kharkiv on May 24.
It is highly likely that the new party will be created instead of renaming the already existing one, he said.
“The party, I believe, will be completely new. It will be created from scratch. We will not rearrange or rename anything,” he said.
The new party will be aimed at small and medium enterprises and Head of Odesa Regional Administration Mikheil Saakashvili will become one of the ideologists of the new political force, Sakvarelidze said.
“Certainly, Saakashvili will be with us. And he will be one of the ideologists and driving forces of the new party,” he said.
He also said that active consultations with MPs Serhiy Leschenko and Mustafa Nayyem are being held. Moreover, “the best part of the Rukh za Ochyschennia [Cleaning up Ukraine] party” may be included in the new political force, he said.
The funding of the party will be clear, he said.
“Everyone will see who funds this party. We even discussed the possibility of returning the money to those who would try to besmirch us and transfer the funds on behalf of a businessman with unsavory reputation […]. We are discussing the possibility of returning such funds to oligarchs who have carved out a reputation of ‘toxic’ in Ukraine. Naturally, we do not need ‘toxic’ oligarchs in our party,” he said.
