Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Amendments passed

The big news today is that the amendments passed to modify the election laws and to create a parliamentary form of government. It looks like the change will take place at the outside in January of 2006. That gives Yuschenko about a year to try to reform things.

It looks like this satisfied everybody on Yuschenko's side except for Tymoshenko. I don't know what her objections are right now. Mine is that they might not have enough time. But who knows.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"..they might not have enough time."That is among my thoughts too, Scott. In addition, I simply don't like the parliamentarian system. It is the socialist-preferred system that can make like a democracy, but isn't really. The combined presidential-parliamentarian system in Ukraine has more democratic features now than it will have after these EU encouraged ‘reforms’ become effective.

I’ve said before – these ‘reforms’ have been kept all too secret, the public does not have them – nor have they been allowed to vote on them. Last – but certainly not least – how is it democratic to allow the very power brokers who will benefit from this the most to vote these advantages for themselves? It reeks of top-down screw-the-people.

In a perfect world, the people would know exactly what government plans for government advanges are - be given the exact text to be enacted, then asked to vote for or against.

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