At the Forum “Joint Peace Initiative”, which was attended by more than 5 thousand residents of Mariupol, the presidential candidate of Ukraine from the “Opposition Bloc” Alexander Vilkul said:
- The most important point of my program is decentralization. Using the example of Mariupol, we will give a state order for Azovmash, for cars and tanks for the Ukrainian railway, and the enterprise will start working. We will leave 100% of environmental charges in the city, serious environmental measures will be implemented for this, and we can pay premiums for pensions and salaries – environmental allowances. We will solve the problems of railway and transport communication.
Decentralization is the real way for industrial cities to “breathe”.
The opposition leader stressed that the next step will be the restoration of industry and the economy, the return to normal life.
For the support of Mariupol, Vilkul together with the city authorities, deputies, representatives of labor collectives and public organizations developed an Address Program.
- Mariupol is the city-hard worker will live decently. Our program includes five strategic directions, - Vilkul said, - in particular:
First: I will restore normal traffic between Mariupol and the rest of the country. The roads will be repaired and the normal railway communication will be restored.
Second: At the expense of the state order for the production of wagons, I will resume the work of Azovmash, which has not been operating for three years. Machine builders of Mariupol will get a job with a decent wage, and metallurgical complexes – an order for the metal.
Third: I will create a special economic zone in Mariupol. This will allow attracting new investors to the city, including foreign ones, to launch new enterprises, to create a developed infrastructure, to provide qualified work and high salaries to tens of thousands of people.
Fourth: 100% of the environmental tax paid by enterprises of Mariupol will remain in the city and go to improve the environment, modernize enterprises, develop infrastructure – roads, repair of roofs, schools, hospitals, and special environmental supplements to residents. Now 75% of the environmental tax is taken from the city.
Fifth: Abolishing the anti-human “pension reform”, in which, instead of increasing pensions, the government under the guise of insurance experience actually increased the retirement age and reduced the 1, 2 lists for such difficult and harmful professions as metallurgists, coke chemists and others. I will give people the benefits they deserve”.
