Socialists to form shadow government

IntelNews

KYYIV - At a February 2 press conference held by the Political Council of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, speakers said that Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma's anti-crisis program is only deepening the economic situation in the country.

As a result, the Socialist Party will be forced into forming a shadow government in March of this year, said Oleksander Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party.

Mr. Moroz said the government's measures lack a proper scientific foundation and criticized the Kuchma Cabinet for not even bothering to consult with the Institute of Economics affiliated with the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

He stressed that the Socialist Party considers workers' collectives the only group having the right to receive state property through privatization. Current privatization programs will only serve the interests of speculators, said spokesmen for the Socialist Party.

The current economic crisis in Ukraine was blamed on the decision to ban the Communist Party in Ukraine and do away with the centralized distribution system. Mr. Moroz said that because today's government officials have thus far not been able to create a new system, the Socialist Party is in the process of drafting its own economic program.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February 7, 1993, No. 6, Vol. LXI

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