Representatives of the Verkhovna Rada, the President’s Office, and ministries, united in “trios”, have developed strategic monthly plans for legislative activity until 2024, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said.
“We began to form plans for legislative work, proceeding from the fact that we have three subjects of legislative activity: the President, MPs and the Cabinet of Ministers, and decisions can be made only when they are agreed upon between them … We divided into 22 groups, in accordance with the number of committees and ministries, and began to work. After that we received the first product – a plan of legislative work of the Verkhovna Rada for 2021. Then the idea arose to note down step-by-step strategic plans until May 2024. As a basis, I suggested taking an approach that I call the ‘ideal group of eight’ on how decisions are made … This ‘group of eight’ scaled up the work of ‘trios’. And now, based on the results of the discussion in the ‘trios’, we have a scheduled monthly plan for each area,” Stefanchuk said in an exclusive interview with Interfax Ukraine.
He also stressed that when working out these plans, the “trios” proceeded from the capacity of the Verkhovna Rada, which is 250-350 bills and resolutions per year.
Subsequently, all data on the plans for the legislative work of the “Stefanchuk trios” are planned to be transferred into a single computer system for the formation of state policy and monitoring of its implementation, with the help of which the president “can see at any second: who is doing it, with whom it is necessary to say goodbye, at what stage the introduction of bills to the Rada is, who goes beyond a certain budget.”
“It was the ideology of how the state should work. And this is what is called ‘Stefanchuk’s trios.’ This is simply the transition of the president’s program into the corresponding tasks and actions with strict control over their implementation, which will be provided by the IT-mechanism, which is being developed with the Canadians, that is, the system that is already working in the government of Canada and taken as a basis, and is interpreted to Ukrainian realities,” said the first deputy speaker.
According to Stefanchuk, such a “full-fledged system” will appear in the near future, and part of it will be open for public viewing.
