The corruptions in the political parties are what cause the corruption in government as a whole. If the parties running the government have corruptions within their own parties, then they will bring their issues to the whole system of government.
One reason that the parties themselves deal with corruption is because of the lack of funds. Due to the large amount of poverty that exists within Ukraine, political parties cannot rely on donations from party members, but must find funds elsewhere. This has caused parties to be vehicles for business interests. Virtually all-powerful Ukrainian parties receive the majority of their funding from business interests. This leads to a large amount of corruption within the parties.
The parties’ platforms become based off their supporting business’s interests. This negatively affects the citizens, because decisions made are not necessarily always in the people’s best interest, but rather in the businesses’ best interest.
Also, due to the reliance on business donations, parties chose to have large business leaders as their candidate. This causes even more legislation and decisions to be made in the bussiness’s favor rather than the people’s favor. Overall it continues to contribute to the overall corruption of the Ukrainian government.
Another problem with the political parties is the large number of them. There are so many political parties that each individual party does not have many followers. This makes it very difficult for agreements to be made over specific issues. The legislatures cannot agree on many issues, so instead of getting things accomplished, everything stays the same. Oksana continues to tell me, “It is so frustrating watching the political parties fight and try to get legislation passed, because it is literally impossible due to the large amount of parties and lack of followers.”
Below is an article about the one current political issue that is going on now, regarding the current president. Take a look. It gives you a glimpse of some of the corruption they deal with when it comes to elections.
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