Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said he will make every effort to prevent the establishment of a dictatorship in the country, Presidential Press Secretary Iryna Vannykova told journalists in Kyiv on Friday.
According to Vannykova, the president is anxious about the growth of
cases in which “Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko openly and in public
ignores national legislation.”
Vannykova said that recently Tymoshenko has promised to gain her objectives in spite of court rulings.
Vannykova said that among such cases is the promise to approve the
2010 national budget under a government resolution, her calls to
privatize OJSC Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant in spite of a court
decision to ban the plant’s privatization, and a court ruling “which in
effect prohibits criticism of the government.”
“One gets the impression that the government is trying to take the
country back to the time of “kitchen glasnost,” when people could only
discuss political issues with their relatives in their kitchens,”
Vannykova said.
Vannykova also accused the Cabinet of adopting illegal decrees and
making the president go to the Constitutional Court. “This is a
threatening tendency,” she said.
“The Ukrainian president says that he, as a guarantor of the
observance of the Constitution and inviolability of the rights and
freedoms of citizens, will take all legal actions to prevent
dictatorship from being established in Ukraine,” Vannykova said.
