11:35 29.10.2012

UDAR offers opposition joint action plan to remove Yanukovych's regime, free political prisoners

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UDAR offers opposition joint action plan to remove Yanukovych's regime, free political prisoners

Vitali Klitschko's UDAR party has offered the opposition political forces a plan of action in the new parliament.

"The UDAR Party has offered the democratic forces to adopt a joint plan of actions in the new parliament. UDAR believes that this document should be signed by the leaders of the opposition forces, as well as by every member of parliament who wants to change power in Ukraine and carry out democratic reforms," reads a statement posted on the party's Web site.

In particular, the plan suggests removing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's regime from power and releasing political prisoners.

"Today we not only have a common enemy, an authoritarian corrupt regime, but also a common goal to make Ukraine into a modern democratic and fair country," the plan says.

The priority determined by UDAR for turning Ukraine into a full-fledged European democratic state is the elimination of the current "corruption and the introduction of new rules governing the functioning of the country's political and economic systems."

UDAR proposes to change the Ukrainian legislation, specifically, to create an independent anti-corruption agency, which will begin anti-corruption lustration, which will involve the prosecution of corrupt officials, judges, and law enforcement officials.

The plan also proposes to adopt a law on the procedures governing the impeachment of the Ukrainian president and the creation of a provisional investigations commission of the Ukrainian parliament on issues relating to the removal of Viktor Yanukovych from power. "We will begin the procedure for impeaching the current president of the country," the plan says.

The party also proposes to introduce a two-round procedure for electing city mayors and deprive the president and the parliament of appointing judges, giving this right to the High Council of Justice.

The document also talks about the reduction of the number of taxes, the creation of incentives for new jobs, a fair pension reform, and the adoption of laws governing the land market.

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