Original article in Ukrainian by Ukrayinska Pravda
Translated by Olga Bogatyrenko for UKL
Ukrainska Pravda learned about fifteen demands made by Viktor Yushhenko for Viktor Yanukovych within the framework of negotiations on how to resolve the crisis.
The top leaders of the state meet to negotiate almost every day, sometimes in the presence of ambassadors from the US or Germany.
For a long time, Yushchenko’s demands were unknown either to politicians from both camps and to the general public.
According to UP, at first, Yushchenko’s proposals were not officially recorded and he merely dictated them to Yanukovych who wrote them down and, subsequently, they were being passed on in the corridors within the President’s and Prime Minister’s close circles.
According to the vice-chairman of the Party of Regions Vasyl Hara, Yushchenko’s demands go as follows:
1. To recognize President Yushchenko’s Decree on the dissolution of the parliament.
2. To strike all the subsequent decisions passed by the Supreme Rada.
3. To agree to hold early elections. The president is willing to reconsider the date.
4. To change the law on the elections of popular deputies with respect to early elections. The president may accept the norm on open candidate lists.
5. To introduce amendments to the law on the budget with respect to funding the elections.
6. The President, not the coalition, will have the right to propose candidacies for the post of the Prime Minister with subsequent approval by the Supreme Rada.
7. To pass the law increasing the power of the head of the state.
8. To pass the new version of the law on the Cabinet of Ministers that takes into account the President’s propositions.
9. To pass the law on the opposition.
10. To make it a mandatory stipulation that coalitions cannot be formed to include deputies from the opposition.
11. To approve a new version of the law on the ratification of the European Charter of Regional Languages and Languages of National Minorities.
12. To strengthen the Universal of National Unity legislatively.
13. To dismiss the Prosecutor General, to appoint a candidate proposed by Viktor Yushchenko. The President demands to strengthen the President’s right to dismiss the Prosecutor General constitutionally.
14. To appoint the candidacy proposed by the President of Ukraine to the post of the Head of the National Security Service.
15. To allow the Central Electoral Committee to carry on with its work. The President agrees to Viktor Yanukovych’s demand to reconsider the composition of the Central Electoral Committee so that all the political forces represented in the Parliament received quota representation.
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