Montyan called Poroshenko’s administrative reform a circus and clownery
“This is a circus and clownery,” this is how Ukrainian politician and lawyer Tatyana Montyan commented on the course of the administrative reform proposed by Poroshenko on the PravdaTut TV channel.
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In her opinion, history knows no examples of pyramids being built starting from the middle blocks or from the top.
“The fundamental basis of any pyramid is precisely the local level, grassroots-grassroots. Those. These are the Civil Code and related regulatory documents. Those. these are algorithms for making legitimate collective decisions starting with two people arguing about some common undivided subject. And then there is a level from people to communities. How to solve the same issues at the level of territorial communities. What should community members do to resolve their property issues? And now the third level is the Constitution. How to make legitimate collective decisions regarding state property,” says Tatyana Montyan.
According to Montyan, in Ukraine there is no so-called neighbor law - a huge section of civil law that deals with ways to resolve issues between people about something in common.
“If this is not the case, then no matter what constitution is written, it will still not work. And if it does, it will be solely at the expense of the “vertical”, administrative resources. And this is a little different from what we seem to be striving for,” she says.
Montyan believes that the administrative reform proposed by Poroshenko does not reflect the issues of financial independence of local budgets.
“I didn’t see any principles of subsidiarity, i.e. transferring issues to the lower level. The main thing is the percentage of distribution of taxes between the center and the localities. With the “evil gang” this distribution was 80/20.
The late Nemtsov said that in damned Mordor Russia this percentage is 65/35, he said this with condemnation - how can the center take so much. What did our new government do? We live in a system where 82% go to the center, and 18% go to the localities. It became even worse than under the “evil dominion.” And people say that in fact, locally they don’t receive any 18% because the bulk of this 18% should have been land tax, which no one pays. In fact, 7-8% remains.
And I have not yet seen any attempts to redistribute this terrible centralized horror, which should not exist in a civilized state. For example, in Switzerland, 92% of taxes remain locally and only 8% goes to the center. In Japan the ratio is somewhere around 90/10. And we even formally have 82/18. What kind of decentralization are they talking about? This is just a stupid renaming of the subjects of administrative-territorial management with other names - all sorts of midwives, counties, etc. But the essence will not change and the money will not be increased,” sums up Tatyana Montyan.
Montyan called Poroshenko's administrative reform a circus and a clown show.