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Bill on political parties must be submitted to session hall – Korniyenko
KYIV. Nov 15 (Interfax-Ukraine) – First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniyenko believes that the bill on political parties should be submitted for consideration in the plenary hall of parliament.
"We need to adopt a law on political parties. It is being prepared for the second year. We must already stop discussing it endlessly and submit it to the session hall. The bill completely renews all the procedures: registration, confirmation, financing, and internal party processes," Korniyenko said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
According to Korniyenko, the text of the draft law takes into account many comments made by the OSCE representatives.
"The bill proposes to introduce such useful norms as registers of party members. As a result, the situations that happened in the elections, when a person wrote in his application form that he was a member of a party, although he was not, will simply be impossible – and this is what our competitors did in 2019. This provision will make it possible to request data from the registers not only by the court, but also by the Central Election Commission. And if someone lied, he will be responsible for this," said the MP.
He also noted that the bill contains a block on the connection of factions of local councils with the party.
"After all, this issue is now in Ukraine in a ‘gray zone’ and there is no legal connection between factions and parties. We, as a party, cannot even influence the text of the regulation on the faction in the local council to make it look the way we want it, because the council votes for this provision. And the council meant any party, referring to the fact that it works in accordance with the law on local self-government. We would like the new law on parties to settle all these issues. And then we will move on to the classical European model, when there is a local party that sets up feedback (top-down, bottom-up) and in parliament it has a faction that implements its political program – it appoints ministers if it is in a coalition, creates an opposition government, if it is in opposition, forms a list of bills, and fights for these laws for five years, adopts them," Korniyenko said.
