The mobilization of Ukrainian civil society has borne fruit. More than 80,000 people asked President Zelensky last weekend to veto a law adopted by Parliament which limited the transparency of public life. The head of state complied without delay, wanting to set an example in the fight against corruption.
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It only took Volodymyr Zelensky a few days to make his decision. Launched last Wednesday by Oleksandre Labtchanka, a member of Da Vinci’s Wolves battalion recently wounded on the front, the petition asked the head of state to refer to Parliament a law that had just been passed, reports our correspondent in Kiev, Peter Alonso.
In the sights of anti-corruption activists: an amendment which postponed by one year the obligation for public officials to declare their assets.
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Transparency on asset declarations is a very effective tool to fight corruption, defend the mobilized organizations, who recall that this obligation existed before the Russian invasion, but was suspended by martial law, for security reasons. “ Statements must be public. Immediately. Not in a year », insisted Volodymyr Zelensky in a short video broadcast this Tuesday morning.
After several corruption scandalswhich come in particular from cost the Minister of Defense his job, Oleksiï Reznikov, accused of not having been able to manage several scandals within his ministry, the president finds himself on the front line. Some 78% of Ukrainians consider him directly responsible for corruption. We better understand his eagerness to be exemplary under popular pressure.
(and with AFP)