Oleksiy Sobolev, Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture, announced the government’s decision to amend the rules governing exemptions for conscripts at critical enterprises, one of which requires raising the average wage at the enterprise to nearly 26,000 UAH.
According to him, the changes consist of three main components. “The first is raising the requirements for the average wage level. To confirm the status of a critical enterprise and reserve an employee, the wage must be at least three times the minimum wage, which is currently 25,941 hryvnias, or nearly 26,000 hryvnias. However, this change does not apply to frontline territories, for which the requirement remains at the current level—21,600,” Sobolev said during a televised marathon on Friday.
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Dmytro Razumkov has said that threshold to the parliament for the parties should be lowered.
“To my mind, a threshold must be less than 5%. This is my personal viewpoint. Each of the factions will have its own viewpoint,” he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
However, the speaker said that the Election Code, which was vetoed by president, should be improved, and the MPs will do this.
“It seems to me better when, nevertheless, the threshold will be less – 3% or 2%. So that new political forces could enter the Rada. It will be difficult for me to say what this indicator will be, since I am not directly involved in the work of the group (in preparing the Electoral Code for consideration),” said Razumkov.
