{"id":113933,"date":"2020-04-10T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=113933"},"modified":"2020-04-14T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:28:09","slug":"75331-imf-s-conditions-vs-kolomoyskyi-ukraine-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/75331-imf-s-conditions-vs-kolomoyskyi-ukraine-crossroads","title":{"rendered":"IMF\u2019s conditions vs Kolomoyskyi: Ukraine at the crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cooperation with the International Monetary Fund seen by Ukraine\u2019s business and economists as nearly the sole hope of Ukrainian economy during the crisis prompted by coronavirus, has been put on hold. The reason is 16 thousand amendments that MPs belonging to Kolomoyskyi\u2019s group of influence introduced to the draft law that regulates nationalized banks.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last days of March during extraordinary parliamentary sittings, MPs passed the law on the land market in the second reading and considered the \u201canti-Kolomoyskyi\u201d banking law in the first reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon after both officials and experts added more certainty to their comments that very soon, in just a week, Ukraine could not only be starting a new cooperation program with the IMF but could also get separate assistance from the Fund to fight against coronavirus. Moreover, other credit programs by international partners \u2013 World Bank and the EU, are linked to cooperation with the IMF. President Zelenskyi made an assumption that Kyiv could get up to USD 10 billion from creditors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMF\u2019s position after the draft law passed the first reading.<\/strong> The IMF outlined what\u2019s key for Ukraine to restart cooperation. The International Monetary Fund welcomes the Ukraine\u2019s initial parliament\u2019s adoption of legislation to strengthen the bank resolution framework and looks forward to its final approval, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Goesta Ljungman said in a statement. \u201cWe also look forward to the adoption of a revised budget for 2020 that will help the authorities to confront the tremendous challenges caused by COVID-19,\u201d IMF\u2019s Ljungman added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, to get assistance from the IMF and other creditors, Kyiv will need to change the budget and adopt the so-called \u201canti-Kolomoyskyi\u201d law that makes impossible the return of nationalized banks to their former owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has already proposed to the Parliament to amend the budget, but the voting of March 30 lacked three votes to pass the amendments. Repeated first reading of the draft law may take place during the next extraordinary sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixteen thousand amendments to 16 thousand words of the draft law. <\/strong>As for the banking law, its consideration in the second reading has been blocked by 16 thousand amendments predominantly submitted by MPs of the \u201cServant of the People\u201d (Sluha Narodu) faction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To compare: the second reading of the land market law that had over four thousand amendments, lasted over two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MP of \u201cGolos\u201d (Voice) faction Yaroslav Zheleznyak called the 16 thousand amendments submitted to the banking law an \u201cabsolute record\u201d at the Ukrainian Parliament. He has analyzed that neither of the highly debated laws in the past \u2013 the Constitutional draft, the Election Code or the land market law, got even half of the amendments introduced to the \u201canti-Kolomoyskyi\u201d law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 16 thousand amendments were submitted to the draft law that has about 16 thousand words, counted investment banker Serhiy Fursa, making an assumption that \u201cKolomoyskyi is paying each amendment\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What comes as a result, the banker proceeds, is an absurd situation in which it will be difficult to find a way out, while the consequences can be catastrophic. \u201cIf there is no IMF, we\u2019ll get no money. If there is no money, it will be an economic disaster,\u201d Fursa wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parliament can consider the draft law at the next extraordinary sitting that will likely take place on April 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who introduced the amendments to the draft law? <\/strong>The biggest number of amendments \u2013 over six thousand, was introduced by Anton Polyakov, an MP expelled from the \u201cServant of the People\u201d party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several more MPs that submitted over a thousand amendments each and are also members of the \u201cServant of the People\u201d party, used to earlier have ties to either \u201cPrivatBank\u201d or to political or media projects linked to Kolomoyskyi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among them is, for instance, MP Olha Vasylevska-Smahlyuk who used to work on 1+1 TV channel in the past. She introduced 1,5 thousand amendments to the banking draft law explaining that she wanted to \u201cfix all the Codes so that these Codes function properly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others who contributed with amendments were the MPs of \u201cServant of the People\u201d party elected in single-member districts of Dnipropetrovsk region: Dmytro Chornyi and Serhiy Demchenko (both linked to Svyatoslav Oliynyk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council and Ihor Kolomoyskyi\u2019s close ally). Nearly two more thousand amendments were introduced by MP Viktor Bondar, co-chair of the parliamentary group \u201cFor Future\u201d (Za Maybutne).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does Kolomoyskyi say? <\/strong>Ihor Kolomoyskyi, former owner of the nationalized \u201cPrivatBank\u201d said he has nothing to do with the record high number of amendments collected by the draft law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would call the law not \u2018anti-Kolomoyskyi\u2019 but anti-Ukrainian,\u201d the tycoon said in a comment to \u201cNovoe Vremya\u201d (New Times). \u201cSovereignty and the Constitution are being traded for thirty silver pieces, very expensive ones, though.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolomoyskyi repeatedly spoke in support of default \u2013 failure to pay off external loans that, in his opinion, will free the money for domestic needs. In his last flash interview to \u201cNovoe Vremya\u201d, the oligarch said that he is not opting for default but for \u201crestructuring of debts\u201d. He emphasized that he had not discussed the law in question with Zelenskyi. \u201cWe have not discussed it at all. People have chosen their way, it\u2019s a road to nowhere and experience of the predecessors \u2013 Yatsenyuk, Poroshenko, Hroysman and Honcharuk, proves it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business reacts. <\/strong>Eight leading business associations released a statement emphasizing the urgent need for IMF\u2019s assistance. In a joint declaration, they appealed to lawmakers warning them of the dangerous consequences of rejecting the cooperation with the IMF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAssistance from the IMF and other international partners remains nearly the only possibility for the country to keep standing,\u201d said Anna Derevyanko, Executive Director at the European Business Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She quoted projected calculations in a scenario when the quarantine is extended for several more months and Ukraine gets the IMF support program. Economy will then decline by nine per cent and hryvnia exchange rate will go up to 35 UAH per one USD. Instead if Ukraine gets no support from the IMF and other organizations, hryvnia\u2019s depreciation can reach 45-65 per cent bringing the exchange rate to 50-80 UAH per one USD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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