Le gouvernement ukrainien consacre toute son énergie à faire avancer les réformes…
• Ministre de la santé (ex-géorgien) Kvitashvili
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Poroshenko’s faction wants to oust Kvitashvili, Ukraine’s health minister ; he slams critics for financial self-interest
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The parliamentary faction of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc accuses Health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili of failing to conduct reforms and wants him to resign. The president’s bloc, with 144 members, is the largest faction among the 422 lawmakers in office.
Ihor Kononeko, the deputy head of the faction, announced the decision on June 30.
Kvitashvili, appointed six months ago, is outraged by the attempt to oust him, saying that the accusations against him are driven by the financial self-interests of those who would lose money if his changes come into law.
“Some don’t need reforms, some need what has been in place for the last 25 years – silent budget embezzlement,” Kvitashvili told a press conference the same day.
The minister said his team has succeeded in changing the whole system of state purchases of medicine, an historic source of corruption through non-competitive procurement, inflated prices and kickbacks.
He said he did this despite the lack of support in Parliament.
But he claims he has the support of the Cabinet of Ministers and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who earlier this month gave Kvitashvili three months to make improvements that Ukrainians would notice.
Yatsenyuk also granted a request by lawmakers to investigate him, the fourth such probe of his activities this year, Kvitashvili said. “They could have at least waited for the investigation results on July 10,” he said.