Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said that the parliament will return to work on legislation related to oligarchs after the war. He announced this on the air of the “Edyny Novyni” telethon.
“I think that after the end of the war, we will definitely return to this issue, because we have no right to revert to the format of the economy and socio-political relations that existed before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The model of the state, which is built on the oligarchic principle, is doomed to failure,” said Ruslan Stefanchuk.
He reminded that the fight against oligarchs was one of the seven conditions from the European Union for Ukraine to acquire the status of a candidate for joining the European Union.
“We fulfilled it, this law (“On prevention of threats to national security associated with excessive influence of persons who have significant economic or political weight in public life (oligarchs)” – ed.) was adopted, launched, but we agreed, that he alone, as a monolaw, cannot work,” Stefanchuk noted.
According to the speaker, in order for this law to have a systemic nature, a number of other laws and decisions were adopted before it. Among them, Stefanchuk mentioned the adoption of the law on lobbying, changes to antimonopoly legislation, adoption of issues related to the Accounting Chamber.
By order of the Cabinet of Ministers, the launch of the register of oligarchs was put on hold. The reason was declared to be the remarks of the Venice Commission, which in June 2023 recommended postponing the entry into force of the law “On the prevention of threats to national security related to the excessive influence of persons who have significant economic or political weight in public life (oligarchs)”, which was adopted in 2021.
