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Authorities should take into account Venice Commission recommendations to bill on oligarchs – MP Rakhmanin
KYIV. Sept 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The current wording of the anti-oligarchic bill does not in any way deprive the oligarchs of influence in Ukraine, and there is no point in adopting it in this form, Serhiy Rakhmanin, an MP from the Holos party faction, believes.
The Holos press service said that the MP is convinced that it would be appropriate if the parliament wait for the Venice Commission’s conclusion on the draft law before adopting it at second reading.
"If the Verkhovna Rada adopts bill No. 5599 as a whole, without waiting for the conclusions of the Venice Commission, this will damage the reputation of the state and call into question the sincerity of the authorities’ intentions to cleanse politics from corrupt influence," Rakhmanin said.
According to him, despite the fact that the recommendations of the Venice Commission are not binding, the Rada should not adopt this bill until the European constitutionalists draw their conclusions.
"This bill does not carry any semantic meaning: according to a rather arbitrary procedure, an unauthorized body – the National Security and Defense Council, which contradicts the Constitution, defines the circle of persons as oligarchs and enters into a strange register. That’s all. No penalties, sanctions or restrictions. I personally do not know how this can force the oligarchs to be law-abiding and responsible, about which the president himself has repeatedly said. This bill is mainly about PR," he stressed.
He noted that those who "want to fight the oligarchs do it, and those who do not want – come up with strange bills."
"This is such a small moral satisfaction to people with whom you are forced to be in the same political space, on which you cannot or are really afraid to influence," Rakhmanin is convinced.
The MP stressed that the law, if adopted, will do nothing in cleaning the country from the corrupt influence of oligarchs, because "Ukraine now has enough tools for a real fight against oligarchs."
