Ukraine’s interior minister: “Nobody will succeed in frightening or taming me”

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Ukraine’s Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko commented today in Zaporozhye on the intention of the Ukrainian Supreme Rada to dismiss him. “The parliament has an exclusive right to appoint by prime minister’s nomination and dismiss ministers. If they want to, let them do it. It will be a political action of the parliament. But I am not going to pay my attention to political intriguing by those who are trying to take revenge for having bad dreams because they remember on the problems and the law. Truly speaking, I am the least concerned by it,” Lutsenko is quoted as saying by a REGNUM correspondent.

As REGNUM reported earlier, on November 2, members of the Supreme Rada passed a decision to establish an investigation commission to check facts of corrupt actions and abuse by Interior Ministry officials. They proposed to dismiss Yuri Lutsenko for the time of the investigation.

As the minister stressed today, he was not surprised that the decision was passed by a majority (235 from 435 MPs voted for it). “Especially those who have guilty conscience are initiating the voting by their factions. It is rather interesting, allegedly antagonistic factions vote unanimously, i.e. Regions Party and Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko. Why it happened so, I know, because I had warned leaders of those factions about problems with the law by some their members. Yesterday, I got a response: people are trying either to frighten me or to tame. No doubt, they will not succeed in it,” Lutsenko concluded.