A parliamentary committee summoned Ferchuk, the head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, to a meeting on August 20

On August 7, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Digital Transformation invited Minister of Digital Transformation Oksana Ferchuk to a meeting on August 20. This was announced by People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ar’yev.

“According to the rules of procedure, a ministerial nominee meets with the relevant committee prior to appointment. This is not a mandatory but a recommended procedure. She met with everyone else but showed absolutely no desire to meet with the Verkhovna Rada committee responsible for the ministry’s activities. Why? We’re curious ourselves. Therefore, we issued a political summons and formally invited her to our committee meeting on August 20, asking her to present the ministry’s development program. We understood what Fedorov and his team were doing in this position. Since this person is from a different team, there will be many questions for her. In particular, how will they continue to develop “Dii”? Do they plan to use it or try to adapt it for the elections? Because, as far as I know, Fedorov was against holding votes in “Diya” that would influence the formation of state or local government bodies. And how will we move forward with the work on the artificial intelligence bill that we’ve started? In other words, there are a great many practical issues,” he noted.

“In reality, this is a complete disregard for Parliament. But if you don’t respect Parliament, it will be harsher and more vigilant toward you. We had a perfectly normal dialogue with the previous team at the Ministry of Digital Transformation. We collaborated with the ministry during the drafting stage of the bills. And the position of “European Solidarity” was also taken into account—something few Verkhovna Rada committees and ministries can boast about. But now this cooperation is in question—not only with “European Solidarity,” but with the committee as a whole. We don’t understand what’s happening at the ministry today.”

The MP noted that the committee had also appealed to Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi.

“We made it clear to him that it is inappropriate for the minister in charge of a particular portfolio not to attend meetings of the committee responsible for bills in his area. We also informed him that we will strengthen oversight of the ministry’s activities and monitor, in particular, how things unfold there. This is the nearly unanimous position of our committee.”

Ar’yev admitted that he has not yet seen a response from either the prime minister or the minister.

“Whose team does she belong to? Probably the one that nominated her. I don’t think it was Koretsky. It came from the Office of the President. As for who exactly promoted her—I don’t know. I don’t really keep track of such things,” the politician noted.

Source: Censor.NET

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