Kyiv, December 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The newly elected parliament and the Ukrainian government continue giving populist promises and demonstrate their inability to conduct real reforms, Director of the 'Open Society' Foundation Ivan Sikora says.

"Having compared the results of the monitoring of major campaign-forming promises and the performance of the former and new parliaments for the first 50 days, experts from 'Open Society' and the Reanimation Package of Reforms (Kyiv) have concluded that populist practices continue," he said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv on Friday.

According to him, a significant disadvantage of the government's action program is the lack of clearly seen indicators of results that are to be achieved through the implementation of this program, and it contains the reform implementation timing only.

"The pre-election promises that are poorly articulated and sophisticated in measurement are quickly forgotten, and the government's documents are based on the logic of focusing on the process rather than on the result. The terms of the fulfillment of the promises are put off and replaced by populism," he said.

Sikora also stressed that the thesis of the authorities that people need to "tighten their belts" will be shifted mainly on the shoulders of ordinary people rather than of oligarchs.