The Communist Party of Ukraine wants this country to transform from a parliamentary-presidential into parliamentary republic, reads the statement of the 36th joint convention of the CPU on May 26 in Kyiv, reports Interfax Ukraine. The Communists declare that they will campaign for proportional parliamentary elections, for Verkhovna Rada to form a cabinet accountable to parliament, and for the latter to have a right to pass a vote of no confidence against the cabinet as a whole and its separate members.
The CPU also expelled from its ranks the “traitors” President Leonid Kuchma, former President Leonid Kravchuk, and former Speaker Ivan Pliushch. The resolution reads that these gentlemen have never been true Communists but used the Party for their own careers. Formally, they were expelled because they had never applied for withdrawal after the USSR’s collapse and taken no part in CPU activities.
