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General, former head of the Main Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine and head of the "Alternative" party, Vasyl Vovk, named three changes he believes Ukraine needs: the introduction of long-term strategic planning, strengthening personal responsibility of officials, and honest dialogue between the authorities and society. He spoke about this in an interview with OBOZ.UA.
Vovk explained that he decided to engage in political activity due to disagreement with how the state system functions.
"At a certain moment I understood a simple thing: if you constantly say that the state system works incorrectly, it is not enough to stay a commentator. You need to offer an alternative model and take responsibility for it," he explained.
According to the general, the "Alternative" party plans to grow not around its leader, but on the basis of defined principles, program, and team.
"Ukrainian politics has been operating for many years roughly the same: a well-known surname appears, a political project is created under it, then people, ideology and program are sought. We want to build the opposite – from principles, structure, team, and system of views," Vovk said.
He defined the party's ideology as conservative liberalism.
"At the center is a free person, their work, property, and dignity. There should not be an excess of state in a citizen's life, but where it is necessary, it should be strong: in matters of the army, court, security, and ensuring the rules of the game," he said.
Vovk described the mission of "Alternative" as an aspiration to "return the state to the people, break the system-raising and build an order that protects freedom."
One of the party's priorities he named is long-term strategic planning of state policy. The second is personal responsibility of officials, in particular for corruption during the war and decisions that affect Ukraine's defense capability. The third direction, according to Vovk, should be an open discussion with society of key questions of the war and the country's future.
In the interview with the publication, Vovk also described a possible scenario of stopping hostilities based on the principle "we stand where we stand" with a transition to long peace negotiations. He emphasized that implementing such a scenario should not mean Ukraine's legal renunciation of the occupied territories.
"We are talking about something else – about separating two tasks. First: stop the daily deaths of people. Second: continue the fight for the restoration of territorial integrity through political, diplomatic, economic, and, depending on the future situation, other means. We must honestly tell people that returning all territories by military means within a year, two, or three today looks like an extremely difficult task. But that does not mean that Ukraine should renounce them," the general said.
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