Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov suggests the sweeping reform of the judicial system when the existing courts stop working for three months while new judges are being selected on a competitive basis.

"I believe that it is necessary to return to the radical project that the People's Front [party] once insisted on, however, did not garner support of. It was about the full (!) replacement of the judiciary. Full rebooting with the recruitment of new members, professional competition, and a real EXTERNAL performance review of the current judiciary. It was proposed that new courts should have been created while the old ones continued working. I am in favor of even tougher measures," Avakov wrote on Facebook on Monday.

He says he is sure that everyone will understand and agree if the courts in the country don't work for three months while new courts are being formed. "If people know that it will be a real change and a purge, they will agree to wait! Adopt all the necessary legal acts for the period of transition ranging from the extension of procedural periods to the order of proceedings and that's it – you've got three months for rebooting. A brand-new judiciary will appear after all the contests have been held!"

The minister says he thinks both Ukrainians and investors will support such changes.

"I believe we need to decide in favor of the sweeping reform of the courts – and this is both a process and a task for all of us in 2016, along with the completion of the key stage of reform at the Interior Ministry, and real change rather than simulation at the prosecutor's office," Avakov said.