The candidates are urged to announce publicly their suggestions on overcoming key problems of the national anti-corruption policies, including:
— Full loss of credibility by the management of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office
— Inability of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention management to ensure the Agency’s fulfillment of its functions
— Regular attacks of the political elite against the National Anti-Corruption Bureau
— Transformation of part of the Security Service of Ukraine into a tool and provider of corruption
The list is absolutely not exhaustive, but the absence of a clear stance of the current candidates attests to the fact that they do not have an understanding of key anti-corruption challenges.
“The list is absolutely not exhaustive, but the absence of a clear stance of the current candidates attests to the fact that they do not have an understanding of key anti-corruption challenges,” says the document.
For their part, civil society organizations are willing to discuss these issues with the presidential candidates.
As a reminder, Ukrainian voters have identified corruption as one of Ukraine’s three biggest problems. High-level political corruption carries the biggest risks, according to over 90% of Ukrainians.*
Most Ukrainians believe that the President is responsible for anti-corruption activity (63%), somewhat fewer voted for the Verkhovna Rada (42%). 80% of Ukrainians are sure that the main reason of corruption is the absence of adequate punishment for it.*
Signed by:
- Transparency International Ukraine
- Automaidan
- Center of Policy and Legal Reform
- Anti-Corruption Action Center
- CentreUA
- Nashi Hroshi (“Our Money”)
- Deklaratsii Pid Kontrolem (“Declarations Under Control”)
- Anti-Corruption Headquarters
- StateWatch
- Institute of Legislative Ideas
- Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center
- Hromadskyi Kontrol (“Civic Control”)
- Chesno movement
- Civic Monitoring and Research Center
We urge other organizations to support this agenda as well.
*According to the National Anti-Corruption Survey held by Kyiv International Sociology Institute as part of the USAID/ENGAGE program. The survey was held between July and August, 2018. The sample consists of 10,169 respondents, the theoretical sample error constitutes 1%. All field work and data processing for this research were carried out by Kyiv International Sociology Institute.
