Page 18 - bne_newspaper_April_12_2019

Eastern Europe
April 12, 2019 www.intellinews.com I Page 18
Zelenskiy releases
list of first 10 steps should he win Ukrainian presidential elections
bne IntelliNews
Having said very little about his policy plans comic and Ukrainian presidential front-runner Volody- myr Zelenskiy has released some details of what he would should he win the second round vote on April 21.
While President Petro Poroshenko has framed
his campaign in terms of “me or Putin” playing
on his national security agenda and track record of facing down Russian aggression, Zelenskiy has launched a “past and future” campaign that plays on the administration’s failure to delivery on the promises of Maidan and the need to focus improv- ing the quality of life.
Zelenskiy also attempted to counter Poroshenko’s attack on his lack of experience by disclosing a list of his potential key officials and the first ten reform steps he would take, reports the liga.
net news agency reported on April 9, citing cam- paign ideologue Ruslan Stefanchuk and Danylo Hetmantsev, the campaign’s expert on economic and financial issues.
1.Invite British and American diplomats to the negotiations to resolve the war in Donbas. Remove Putin confidante and Ukrainian citizen Viktor Med- vedchuk from the negotiations.
2.Eliminate the competition between the Defense Ministry and the General Staff of the Armed Forc- es of Ukraine.
3.Appoint honest judges to the High Anti-Corrup- tion Court.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has released some details of what he would should he win the second round vote on April 21.
4.Submit a bill to parliament creating a legal me- diation alternative to litigation.
5.Submit bills to parliament introducing a 5% tax amnesty starting 2020, a tax on capital withdraw- als, an international exchange of tax information and creating a Financial Investigations Service.
6.Submit to parliament a legislative package cre- ating the legal framework for national and local referenda and petitions, recalling MPs, and im- peaching the president.
7.Conduct a state audit over a four-month period.
8.Introduce a “secret plan” for parliament. If Zelenskiy is unable to achieve cooperation with MPs, other options will be available that “will im- press many”.
9.Reform the Presidential Administration to elimi- nate “curators” of public affairs and to focus on its clerical functions, including developing reform ideas.
10.Nominating candidates to lead the Defense Ministry, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Prosecutor General’s Office by April 19, or two days before the runoff vote.
Many of the names of possible candidates are well respected, liberal and experienced politicians that include: Alex Danylyuk for foreign minister, Ihor Smeshko for SBU head, and US prosecutor Mar- tha Boersch (who successfully prosecuted former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko) or Romanian National Anti-Corruption Directorate Chief Pros-