Ukrainians put 'disreputable' deputies in garbage cans amid govt's stepping up lustration plan
Two deputies, Alexander Kharlamov and Vladimir Vovchenko, were put in garbage cans by a group of people who said they were “Maidan activists”. They demanded lustration. One of the deputies was a member of the Party of Regions led by ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, the other represents a communist party.
The incident happened during a session of the local council in the town of Cherkasy. There are policemen and officers of Ukraine’s Security forces near the council building now.
On September, 16 deputy Vitaly Zhuravski, an author of the infamous Law on Libel, was put in a garbage can in Kyiv.
It is the residents of Odessa who started to ‘throw’ corrupt officials ‘into the garbage’.
Meanwhile, Oleksandr Turchynov, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada has signed the law on lustration passed by the parliament on September 16 and called on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to sign the document without delay.
The speaker signed the law at a press conference on Thursday in the presence of journalists and public activists, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“Signing this law, I also call on the president to sign it without delay,” Turchynov said.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law on lustration at third attempt on September 16.
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said around one million people fall under the lustration law.
“By our estimates, about one million of all sorts of officials, public servants, and law enforcement officers fall under this law,” Yatsenyuk told government.
To ensure the document’s implementation, the Prime Minister ordered to a commission that will investigate current Cabinet members and deputy ministers, and all senior executive officials in the central government to be set up on the subject of compliance with the Ukrainian lustration law.
The prime minister instructed the Justice Minister to urgently form a state register of persons who fell under lustration, and senior executive officials in central government to urgently set up a commission for lustration in every ministry.
