The Lytvyn Bloc and Communist Party (CPU) leaders will not participate in the shadow government which is initiated by Party of Regions (PRU) leader Viktor Yanukovych.
“I am categorically against this,” said CPU leader Petro Symonenko.
“There will be nothing but talks,” asserted Mr. Lytvyn.
Objections within the PRU grow as well.
Kommersant-Ukrayina newspaper examined the issue and stated that there is no such thing as a “shadow government” in Ukraine’s law. In January 2007 the Law on the Opposition was adopted in the first reading which stipulated some structural features of the shadow cabinet but the PRU does not want to adopt it in the second reading.
“The document needs serious amendments,” claimed PRU member Mykola Kramar who is also against the shadow cabinet.
“I will be ineffective and may only create chaos.”
Mr. Kramar added that the PRU had not yet decided on the matter.
Mr. Kinakh, who was the Economy Minister in the Yanukovych government, supports the idea:
“The opposition should carefully control the government and the shadow government may fulfill this function.”
He stated the need of formalizing the shadow cabinet by adopting its regulations and structure and developing an alternative budget.
Another PRU member, Vice Prime Minister in the Yanukovych government, Volodymyr Rybak, objected to the shadow government and use of such a term.
According to him, the PRU should form a ‘virtual’ MPs organization where each of deputies will be accountable for his own direction but the body will not collaborate with the current Cabinet.
“We will generate ideas and make it public. If the Cabinet considers them necessary, it will use them but we are not going to submit our proposals for official approval.”
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda
