Leader of the Front for Change Party and MP Arseniy Yatseniuk has called on opposition politicians to publish their income declarations for 2011.
"I call on people’s deputies of Ukraine representing the democratic opposition, those people, Ukrainians, that want changes to take place, not to conceal their incomes and expenditures. I’m addressing my colleagues: we should be similar to them [the authorities], we have nothing to hide. Show your declarations for 2011. We are stronger, we are smarter, we are more honest than they are," Yatseniuk said at a morning sitting of the Verkhovna Rada on March 21.
The lawmaker said that the Constitutional Court of Ukraine with a recent ruling "once and for all legalized corruption in the country."
He added that now the authorities are not obliged to declare their incomes and expenditures.
"Before the parliamentary elections in 2012, those representing the Regions Party and the authorities do not want to declare the billions of their incomes. Corruption remains the basis of the state policy of the incumbent president and the ruling party," Yatseniuk said.
As reported, on March 20 the Constitutional Court published a ruling, which postponed the obligation of public officials and deputies to declare their and their families’ incomes and expenditures by a year. The court also in fact legalized the right of public officials and deputies to have corporate rights.
