Leader of NGO Front of Changes Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that after presidential elections, Ukraine should not repeat the practice of 2004, when 18,000 officials were replaced.
“Who were they replaced with? They were replaced with those who have never managed the country,” he said live on the Odesa regional television on Wednesday, his organization’s press service reported.
Yatseniuk said that the future president would have to “oblige the current team and the current system to work.”
He said that any team should be taught.
“I have colleagues at work who have great experience in creating hundreds and even thousands of workplaces. There are no ‘political koloboks’ [gingerbread men] among them, but they will form a new political elite. We are currently teaching them and explaining to them what the government is and how it should be dealt with. MPs are those who work for the regions, districts and cities, rather than those who divide up money and land,” Yatseniuk said.
Yatseniuk declared his intention to run for Ukraine’s president in the spring of 2009.
