MP of UKROP interfactional association Andriy Denysenko developed the bill, which, if approved, bans the activists of Yanukovych regime from working in the executive and representative bodies. According to the politician’s account on his Facebook page, draft law № 4688 “ On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On purifucation ofpower" (on the list of persons subject to lustration)” will allow to apply in Ukraine the principles of political lustration on the model of Poland and the Czech Republic, which freed themselves from the influence of the Kremlin and its collaborators in early 90s.
The MP noted that today among all members of former pro-Russian government the lustration affected only officials, however, they still have the right to run for elective office at all levels and even to Parliament. "At the same time, deputies of all levels, party functionaries of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party, that is the politicians who were the main vehicles of Yanukovych regime, including the ideologues and the co-organizers of anti-Ukrainian Yanukovych’s policy, escaped any restrictions and sanctions,” said Andriy Denysenko .
Thus, the MP proposes to introduce a lifetime ban for appointment and election to the public authorities and local governments of heads of regional councils, regional administrations, ministers and MPs from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party, who held the office within the period from 2011 to 2013 and members of the central executive bodies of these parties. The local councils, party functionaries of the regional, city and district levels should get a 10-year ban on election to authorities.
In addition, UKROP’s MP proposed a lifetime ban for officials and MPs from these parties to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and law enforcement. "The bill on political lustration is inherently an act imposing restrictions on the fifth column of the Kremlin. Its adoption will fulfill the strategic task of nation-building and national security - to remove the pro-Russian elite out of power and reduce its influence on national and local politics,” the politician said.
Andriy Denysenko also said that the bill would deprive pro-Moscow politicians who hold anti-Ukrainian activities, of the opportunities to hide behind parliamentary immunity and to carry out revenge, the return of Little Russia, their further personal enrichment and corruption geopolitical turn of Ukraine toward Russia.
