The Verkhovna Rada decided to return Denis Shmygal’s Cabinet of Minister’s program for revision. The Prime Minister asked Members of Parliament for additional time to finalize it, and 245 deputies voted for the change.

The adoption of a government program will provide immunity for the Cabinet of Ministers for a year.

However, it was impossible to accept it in the proposed edition for a number of reasons:

• the document is basically incomplete and lacking detail - it does not contain a real plan of effective reforms needed for Ukraine in the state of the economic crisis;

• the document does not specify the obligations that Ukraine undertakes signing a new loan agreement with the IMF;

• the document is openly protectionist, aimed at favoring the interests of the country's largest oligarch - the richest Ukrainian Rinat Akhmetov - and not the people of Ukraine.

MP Alexander Dubinskyi initially recommended colleagues not to return the program for the revision.

“I do not call for the dismissal of Prime Minister Denis Shmygal and his ministers. But I want non-acceptance of an empty and even dangerous program to become a kind of “warning”. They need to work for Ukraine, but not for the country’s single richest person. Work must be done even without immunity,” Dubinskyi says.

Andrey Pshenichnyi for the site dubinsky.pro