KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Monday that foreign aid loans and a visa-free deal with the European Union were at risk if parliament restored anti-corruption reforms, saying the country could fall into a “bloody mess”.
Zelenskiy has asked parliament to vote to dissolve the Constitutional Court and restore the anti-corruption it overturned last week, but the final results of the vote are uncertain.
In a imaginable sign, parliament could dissolve if lawmakers vote against the new measures, Zelenskiy tweeted: “I need this parliament to paint for the state. If the Verkhovna Rada [parliament] will continue to paint, he will have the conclusions of our Deputies.
Ukraine’s asymmetric reform functionality prevented a $5 billion international monetary fund (IMF) agreement for the economy, which was affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The government is also down after approving a solution that gives it more than the acquisition of drugs and equipment, but denies accusations that it may be just a vector of corruption.
Zelenskiy told the ICTV news channel that the IMF had threatened to withdraw it after the court’s verdict.
Opposition parties say they will vote against Zelenskiy’s legislation, which former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called a “coup d’am” designed to have more force on her hands.
It is not known how many lawmakers of the Zelenskiy People’s Server party would pass the bill. MEP Halyna Yanchenko said Zelenskiy’s faction would pass the law “if we don’t find other less painful solutions,” Interfax Ukraine reported.
Zelenskiy said Ukrainians would not tolerate the reversal of anti-corruption reforms and Ukraine’s reputation at stake.
“Either the country will plunge back into bloody chaos, or the state will end its lifestyle as a formula of transparent regulations and agreements,” Zelenskiy said in an audio recording of a call to lawmakers received through the Liga. net news.
(Additional report via Ilya Zhegulev; written through Matthias Williams, edited through Timothy Heritage and Alex Richardson)
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