Posted on 02/20/2016 2:14:53 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
After hours of public bashing by lawmakers in the session hall of Ukraine's parliament, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk rose from his chair, visibly nervous. These were the last minutes before a no-confidence vote.
But suddenly, Mustafa Nayyem, a well-known reformist legislator, saw a sight that must have chilled him to the bone. Moments before the vote, dozens of legislators from a range of parties suddenly left the session floor — they weren't going to vote against the government. Nayyem rushed to Twitter to warn the country: a backdoor deal had been reached, and the no-confidence vote would likely fail. But it was too late. The voting had already started.
First came the walkout. Then, almost three dozen legislators from President Poroshenko's party failed to support the no-confidence vote. In the end, the no-confidence motion gathered just 194 of the 226 votes it required. Yatsenyuk and his government had survived.
Well, let's make it clear once and for all: Ukrainian politics is anything but chaotic. There are no party lines, no real policy debates, no ideological clashes: just cold-hearted vested interests and short-term alliances between various oligarchic groups.
In Ukraine, it is utterly naive to search for any dichotomy between the crooks and the reformers along party lines. Recent investigative reports and scandals have exposed what most people have long already known: that clusters of corruption thrive inside almost every party, including that of President Poroshenko, Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, the Opposition Bloc, and others. Further, the various corrupt forces successfully cooperate with each other, even when they are not “formally†allied politically.
The same is true of the reformers: you can find brave fighters for change not only within heavily corrupt parties but inside the corrupt government as well. Unfortunately, these reformers are outnumbered by the kleptocrats.
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From the article:
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk...”We inherited a plundered country, with the Russian army and Russian boots marching on Ukrainian territory. We had no army, no money, no public administration. But we kept this country together. I ask you to respect that,” he said, clenching his fists.
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“There are still ways for the West to avoid a full-blown Ukrainian collapse. First, it must fight hard for the remaining reformers: as long as the hands of powerful people like Minister Jaresko or anti-corruption crusaders like Mustafa Nayyem and Serhii Leshchenko aren’t tied, there’s a chance that the country’s development will continue.
Secondly, the West shouldn’t fall for the cheap theatrics of a “political cleanup” that are being propagated by the country’s ruling elites.”
Mustafa? In the Ukraine?
When it comes to Ukrainian corruption, the numbers speak for themselves. Over $12 billion per year disappears from the Ukrainian budget, according to an adviser to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau. And in its most recent review of global graft, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International ranked Ukraine 142 out of 174 countries on its Corruption Perceptions Index — below countries such as Uganda, Nicaragua and Nigeria. Ordinary Ukrainians also endure paying petty bribes in all areas of life. From vehicle registration, to getting their children into kindergarten, to obtaining needed medicine, everything connected to government has a price.
The worst corruption occurs at the nexus between business oligarchs and government officials. A small number of oligarchs control 70 percent of Ukraine’s economy, and over the years have captured and corrupted Ukraine’s political and judicial institutions. As a result, a “culture of impunity” was created, where politicians, judges, prosecutors and oligarchs collude in a corrupt system where everyone but the average citizen benefits.
Ukraine is weak!
-— just cold-hearted vested interests and short-term alliances between various oligarchic groups-—
Interesting sentence
it pretty much sums up all governments not controlled absolutely by a dictator or king
Most probably a Crimean Tartar.
These savages should take example from the example of Singapour where corruption is attacked no matter the level of responsibility inmorder to attract nusiness confidence.
But our congress is behavingnthe same way. Everyone talks of TAFTA in Europe and they are voting on it, but crickets in our media while the US government is negociating themlanguage right now behind our backs.
* corruption is attacked no matter the level of responsibility in order to attract business confidence.
I would not be surprised if Putin still has agents of corruption within the Ukraine government, The communists are still all over the place in these places,mtrying to keep their bureaucratic positions.
Heck, they are all over our "Place." We have one running for President, may be two. The bastards are insidious.
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