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People’s Servant faction (227 MPs) and 13 independent MPs. The session examining the legislation was among the most raucous in recent years, in, which the market’s defenders – representing the pro-presidential People’s Servant party – were fiercely criticized and jeered by MPs of competing factions.
After the vote, the populist Fatherland party declared its opposition to the coalition government, joining the European Solidarity party that had declared its opposition in late August (before the cabinet was formed).
Faction Head Yulia Tymoshenko said the market will lead to Ukraine’s loss of sovereignty. Twenty-five People’s Servant MPs also didn’t vote for the bill.
2.9​ ​This is Ukraine's last IMF programme -- MinFin
Ukraine is going to finish its cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2023, and a new programme being negotiated in 2019 should become the last one for the country, the nation's Finance Minister Oksana Markarova said in a televised interview.
"My ambitious plan is to be able to complete it [the programme with the IMF]. So that in 2023 we should not have a question when we will receive a new tranche, and we could support ourselves," news agency Interfax quoted Markarova as saying on November 20.
According to the minister, the government is continuing its negotiations with the IMF mission, which is currently visiting Kyiv. "The programme we are working on is good. It will give us the opportunity of conducting many reforms, privatisation, concessions and other things. But it should also allow us to leave it at the end, as Poland could do at the time," Markarova said.
A new mission of the IMF arrived in Kyiv on November 14 with the aim of continuing the discussion on the possibility of opening a new Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Ukraine, according to the multinational lender's resident representative in Ukraine Goesta Ljungman.
The IMF hopes that quick results in negotiations with Ukrainian authorities will be achieved, Director of the IMF's European Department Poul M. Thomsen said in last week's interview with the Voice of America.
The official said that despite the progress being encouraging, some unsettled issues remain. The representative of the IMF said that Ukraine has achieved the progress in the issue of cleansing the banking sector, stabilisation of the macro-economy, fiscal and monetary policies.
Thomsen said that he is disappointed at the issue of overcoming corruption in Ukraine and public administration. He said that it is important to retain independence of the central bank, achieve progress in the financial sector and continue the budget consolidation, news agency Interfax reported on November 13.
In October​, the IMF said that the lender is going to send a mission back to Ukraine "in a couple of weeks" with the aim to continue talks on reforms and a new support loan programme. The Fund said the Fund did not discuss with
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