Editorial: A spate of resignations and sackings will help to maintain support at home and abroad. Institutional change should follow
. Civil society too has worked hard to raise standards. And polls show that public tolerance of corruption has fallen sharply: people chafe at ministers living large when others are making such sacrifices. The leading anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin suggests that there is an unspoken contract: in exchange for not criticising the authorities openly, the public expect them to deal decisively with the issue.
Institutional change is needed, as well as the targeting of individuals. The head of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency haswhat is needed. First, the government should adopt a three-year anti-corruption strategy that would put extra auditing requirements on recovery and rebuilding projects – as it was supposed to do by 10 January. Second, political parties should resume filing financial declarations.
In the midst of war, it is perhaps understandable that these issues have not been at the top of the agenda. But forto win, it must maintain both domestic and foreign support, and that requires getting it right on the home front as well as the battlefront. Action is needed not only to maintain unity, but because this is what Ukrainians are fighting for: a country that they can take pride in, and which values and respects them.
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