Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said Ukrainian authorities can get over its current political crisis, in which the battle of corruption is stalled and public trust in government is low, in three ways: renewal of a government coalition in parliament, forming a new Cabinet of Ministers under the personal responsibility of President Petro Poroshenko or early elections.
The choice
must be made as soon as possible because political uncertainty has stalled
political and economic reforms and the process of change in Ukraine two years
after the EuroMaidan Revolution that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych.
Yatsenyuk
shared his vision with journalists during a public celebration of poet Taras
Shevchenko birthday in Kyiv on March 9.
“We need to renew the coalition and fill the
staff of the Cabinet” to replace those who left their job. “Then we
need to continue reform’s path and work hard. Because we have no alternative,”
Yatsenyuk told journalists.
He also
sees two other options.
“The second
variant – the president and his bloc take all responsibility for creating a new
Cabinet, new government’s program and a new coalition in parliament. Then all their creations must be presented to
the people of Ukraine for approval,” said Yatsenyuk.
The third
and most undesirable variant, according to the prime minister, is early
elections for parliament.
“We need to
choose one of these three paths in a short term. For me, the first one is the most
acceptable. And I hope, the
parliamentary coalition participants, foremost Samopomich and Radical parties
will make the decision to come back to the coalition and reanimate it,” said
Yatsenyuk.
The
decision must be made as soon as possible so that Ukraine could continue
reforms. In fact, the prime minister
claimed that the process of changes in the country was stopped because of the
political uncertainty.
Yatsenyuk said the priority of any Ukrainian
government is “not to fall into the trap the current Ukrainian authorities have
already fallen”.
“The
members of the coalition, who formed this government, refused to support it for
no reason,” said the prime minister.
