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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Will President-Parliament Friendship Stop Chaos?

13 November, 2012 - 00:00
Photo by Leonid Bakka,The Day: The second session of parliament opened on September 1

The People's Deputies have returned from their vacations, looking well-rested en masse, boasting Canaries-Crimean suntans, as though denying the very existence of crisis in Ukraine. However, Speaker Tkachenko in his opening address quickly brought them back to bitter realities.

After drawing an apocalyptic picture of what was happening in their country (and the description was quite realistic), he said he hoped that the present Parliament would bring with it “years of rebirth and development of the economy” instead of the past seven years during which “we have been destroying, rather than creating things.”

Mr. Tkachenko seems keenly aware of the existing financial advantages Ukraine has over neighboring countries. He told the members and packed guest galleries: “The absence of foreign investments serves the good of Ukraine. There are no investments, so no one will be fleeing from the country.” He saw the precondition of forthcoming attainments in political consolidation and cooperation of the branches of power.

Remarkably, in the presidential message to Parliament, read by the Speaker, the latter thesis is also present, rendered in simple understandable words: if there is no cooperation, prices will jump and inflation will soar. In other words, if Parliament does not approve the President's edicts, Ukraine will be engulfed by chaos and devastation. Among other things, the President writes that the financial avalanche in Russia cannot but affect the economic situation in Ukraine. Some of the Deputies wonder what Mr. Kuchma would have to say if there were no crisis in Russia, but that is another topic.

 

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