Ukraine in Arabic | Ukrainian Parliament passes law on lustration
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ A total of 231 out of the 246 MPs registered in the session hall voted for the bill, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent said.
The law defines the legal and organizational principles of the procedure for the cleansing of power from persons defined by this law, with the goal of establishing in society the rule of law, legality, and improving the efficiency of the fight against corruption.
According to the explanatory note to the law, the purpose of this document is to restore confidence in the government and create conditions for the creation of a new system of government in line with European standards.
To achieve this goal, the bill introduces the procedure of respective verification when resolving the question on the possible appointment of a person, as a subject of verification, to a post in government agencies.
In addition, it is envisaged to organize the procedure for checking persons who are subject to inspection, regarding their compliance with the criteria set out in the bill, in order to address the possibility of their further stay in a respective position.
The head of the working group which finalized the bill on lustration, Yuriy Derevianko, said that the adopted document differed from the bill considered by the parliament at first reading.
He said that the provisions that contradict the current Constitution were removed from the bill.
"All elected posts such as MPs, the commissioner for human rights, judges of the Constitutional Court have been excluded from this law (the law doesn't apply to them)," the lawmaker said.
Derevianko also noted that the family circle of an official, who are to submit their assets and income declarations, has been reduced to those family members who live with the official and share a common household.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukrainian MPs failed to pass this legislative initiative, to which Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov said that lawmakers will not leave the session hall until the bill is adopted.
The document envisages the establishment of a lustration authority.