12:17 08.01.2013

Tomenko: Voting on cancellation of pension reform to be test for MPs

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A bill on the cancellation of pension reform will be a test for MPs of the seventh convocation, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Mykola Tomenko (the Batkivschyna faction) has said.

"The vast majority of political parties and apparently most MPs elected in single-mandate districts promised that one of the first decisions in the Verkhovna Rada of the seventh convocation will be the cancellation of pension reform," Batkivschyna's press service quoted Tomenko as saying.

The politician said that if all of the political parties and the MPs elected in single-mandate districts fulfill their election promises, the current parliament would have 226 votes for the adoption of this decision.

"The vote will show whether these promises are being kept," Tomenko said.

He said the vote will be a first test, and would clearly demonstrate how many MPs, in the first months of the Verkhovna Rada, are ready to betray their voters and abandon their election programs.

He said most Ukrainians are against the pension reform plan submitted by the government of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and the former parliamentary majority.

"It's clear that the Labor and Social Policy Ministry should now initiate a discussion about what civilized pension reform should be like, after the cancellation of the current pension reforms," Tomenko said.

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