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General and former head of the Security Service of Ukraine’s Main Investigations Department Vasyl Vovk named three changes that the Ukrainian state needs. They became the core of the program of the party he leads, Alternative.
In an interview with OBOZ.UA, Vovk also explained the principles on which Alternative should be built and named three areas in which the party plans to act differently from the current authorities.
"At a certain moment I understood a simple thing: if you constantly say that the state system works incorrectly, it is not enough to remain a commentator. You must propose an alternative model and take responsibility for it," he explained.
According to the general, Alternative should not become just another political project built around one well-known surname.
"Ukrainian politics for many years has operated in roughly the same way: a famous surname appears, a political project is built around it, then people, ideology, and a program are sought. We want to build in the opposite way—from principles, structure, team, and a system of views," Vovk said.
According to its leader, the ideological basis of Alternative should be conservative liberalism.
"At the center is a free person, his labor, property, and dignity. There should not be too much state in a citizen’s life, but where it is necessary, it should be strong: in matters of the army, the court, security, and rule-setting," he said.
Vovk formulated the mission of the political force as the aspiration to "return the state to the people, break the system that feeds itself, and build an order that protects freedom."
Vovk also named three areas in which the Alternative approach, according to him, would differ from the current government’s politics.
The first is long-term strategic planning.
The second area should be strict personal accountability of officials, especially for corruption during the war and decisions that affect the nation’s defense capability.
The third priority is an honest conversation between the government and society about the key issues of the war and the country’s future.
As a reminder, in this same interview Vasyl Vovk described a possible scenario for stopping hostilities on the principle "we stand where we stand" with a transition to prolonged peace talks. He stressed that such a scenario should not imply Ukraine’s legal renunciation of the occupied territories.
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