Expectations in Ukraine for Meeting of Ruling Coalition
08 de febrero de 2016, 09:19Kyiv, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) The possible dismissal of Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk, and a hypothetical return to the Government of the Minister of Economy and Trade, Aivaras Abromavicius, generate expectations of today”s meeting of the Council of the majority coalition.
Sergei Soboliev, vice president of the ‘Homeland’ faction, a member of the ruling alliance faction, said that the Council is ready to hear proposals of changes in the economic strategy, business, taxation and social policy by the executive.
At the debate started on Friday after the resignation of Abromavicius at a press conference, in which he claimed that oligarchs and deputies are blocking the neoliberal reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to disburse loans, ‘Homeland’ and ‘Self-help’ said they would not delegated representatives in a government led by Yatseniuk, the source said.
He added that only Yatseniuk’s Popular Front, and President Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc (after a change in the Cabinet’s format) are ready to work with the current prime minister.
On the position of the Popular Front in the case of Yatseniuk’s resignation, Soboliev said that its members did not show the their boss the strong support they did in the past, for they said that ‘they would consider it’ in view of how the situation develops.
On Sunday, the head of the Department of Coordination of International Programs of the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Elena Tregub, told Public Radio that Abromavicius may withdraw his resignation if the new government is made up exclusively of independent experts.
There is no possibility that the current government will stay, he said, it will do only if the Parliament forms a government made up of freelancer experts.
As an ideal scenario, he stressed that the President Poroshenko should demonstrate political will and dismiss the Attorney General, completely change the Cabinet of Ministers, and sign a mandate to form a government integrated totally by technocrats, without political influence.
Then people like Abromavicius would believe, and there would be many more in the Executive, he said, stressing that Abromavicius’ team should stay, because then it would attract many more people in favor of neoliberal privatization.
Tregub criticized those who took power after the coup of February 22nd, 2014, about whom he said that they ‘disappointed’.
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