Who and what are supported at the state expense potential deputies from Chernihiv region?

The parliamentary elections have already gained full revolutions, giving passionate promises from candidates to help everyone solve everything. The Polissya Fund has been analyzing the situation in this area within the framework of the joint project “Expanding European Principles in the Field of State Aid and Public Procurement”, which is implemented in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions by the Civic Coalition “Reform Support Network”.

One of the components of the project is consultations with politicians and further analysis of candidates’ election programs for the availability of norms and provisions that provide for state support in certain sectors of the economy or individual enterprises.

It is symbolic that in early August, the experts of the Polissya Fund on round tables with the participation of candidates 206 and 206 districts appealed to these subjects of the election process to include in their programs the principles of state aid regulation, formulated on the basis of EU legislation. In particular, it was said that state aid should be aimed at fulfilling clearly defined tasks, problems of socio-economic development, which cannot be solved without receiving state aid. At the same time, state aid measures must be properly developed to fulfill its tasks. The characteristics of state aid (volume, form of provision, mechanism of provision) should be adequate (proportional) of the problem to which it is directed. And, ultimately, state aid should be aimed at creating new production facilities, new jobs, technologies.

The idea proposed by the experts of the Polissya Fund of International and Regional Research was perceived by positive potential candidates at that time. Now it’s time to look at how positive ideas have been embodied in candidate programs. Given the fact that the candidates in single -member districts of the region were sufficient (only 89 people), it was a decision to pay priority attention to the programs of candidates who show the greatest activity in the districts and have the greatest chances of taking the chair of parliamentarians.

On the basis of a survey of experts, as well as published sociological research, which were conducted on the territory of the region, monitoring of regional media, the most influential candidates for People’s Deputies, which are running in constituencies of Chernihiv region, were identified, namely (in the context of districts):

-Constituency # 205 -Drivers Valery (Political Party All -Ukrainian Union “Batkivshchyna”), Sokolov Alexander (Party of Regions);

-constituency No. 206 -Vladislav Atroshenko, Volodymyr Polishchuk (Political Party All -Ukrainian Union “Batkivshchyna”), Stanislav Prokopenko (Party of Regions);

-constituency No. 207 -Vladimir Leshchenko (Communist Party), Petrov Oleg, Rybakov Igor, Shapoval Petro;

-constituency No. 208 -Michael’s Golitsa; Lyashko Oleg (Oleg Lyashko Radical Party)

-constituency No. 209 -Ivan Kurovsky;

-constituency No. 210 -mound Igor (Vitaliy Klitschko Prome), Nikolai Rudkovsky.

A general idea of ​​the software provisions in the field of state aid or public funding can be made from the table below.

Table 1 – Characteristics of candidates for People’s Deputies in Chernihiv Oblast

	Candidate	Program position
Constituency 205
1	Valery’s double	Urgent reform of the city utility system: development and implementation of the state target program.
		Three -year “tax holidays” for small hotel, tourist and restaurant business.
		Supporting the united opposition economy.
2	Sokolov Alexander	Restoration of the work of key enterprises of Chernihiv, which will create new jobs, cleaning the river Strizhen, construction of a garbage processing plant – these and other problems can be solved only by targeted allocation of funds from the state budget and attracting powerful investments.
Constituency No. 206
1	Atroshenko Vladislav	To restore the Chernihiv Region Act on the Priority Development Law, which provides for tax benefits for an industrial and agricultural producer;
		In order to stimulate production, creation of new jobs and an appropriate increase in local budget revenues, it is necessary to legally provide minimal purchase prices for agricultural and industrial products for small and medium -sized manufacturers, first of all, milk, meat, potatoes and grain.
2	Polishchuk Vladimir	Audit the results of public procurement and privatization made by the current authorities.
		Establishment of a program of assistance to small agricultural enterprises and farms, which cultivate from 100 to 1000 landscares, for the development of middle -class enterprises, creation of new jobs.
		To seek the establishment of minimum purchase prices for agricultural products to eliminate the arbitrariness of intermediaries.
3	Prokopenko Stanislav	The law on granting the status of the priority development zone to the northern territories of Chernihiv region, which provides for preferential taxation and lending to economic entities, simplified customs regulation;
		Development and implementation of targeted lending programs, leasing for small and medium -sized businesses;
		Law on new jobs (tax benefits for enterprises that create wages with more than 1.5 times from the minimum);
		Employment guarantees for employees over 50 (benefits for enterprises that hire these persons);
		The law on granting special status to the Agricultural Lands of Polesie;
Constituency No. 207
1	Shapoval Peter	Increasing the number of small business businesses
2	Petrov Oleg	To achieve state funding in full volume of programs of socio-economic development of Chernihiv region
		To achieve state funding in full volume within the region and districts of the district of programs of socio-economic development of the Ukrainian village and small cities
3	Leshchenko Vladimir	State support for agriculture and state order for agrarian sector products
4	Rybakov Igor	State support will be provided to the household businesses, servicing and production cooperatives
		The new target program of village development by 2020, which clearly envisages the increase of social standards, and also determines the priorities of agricultural development, taking into account regional features.
Constituency No. 208
1	Golitsa Michael	Organize the assistance of the state in the form of preferential lending and guaranteed irreversible subsidies for housing
2	Lyashko Oleg	We will create the conditions for the revival of national production, the creation of new jobs through radical tax reductions, the cost of loans and the elimination of most permits that lead to bribery and corruption.
Constituency No. 209
1	Kurovsky Ivan	To revive livestock, to promote the creation of rural service cooperatives. The state should provide high purchase prices for meat and dairy and crop products
		We will introduce a supplement and ensure the issuance of preferential loans for housing construction to budget workers working in the countryside
Constituency No. 210
1	Mound Igor	Stimulating economic growth in the community. 100% of the personal income tax, land and real estate tax will remain on the ground. The distribution of other taxes will provide funding for all community needs. Zero income tax rate – for newly created enterprises for 3 years; For depressive territories – for 5 years. At the expense of these funds: to promote the construction and repair of roads in our region, to solve problems of gas and water supply, ecology and others.
2	Nicholas Rudkovsky	Supporting domestic manufacturer in the territory of Chernihiv region
		Ensuring the State Support for Village Development and Agricultural Producer
		Reduced the total tax burden for small and medium -sized businesses
		Introduction for small and medium -sized businesses of preferential rent rates, reducing tariffs for consumed resources

As you can see from consolidated information, the most influential candidates for People’s Deputies included provisions in their programs concerning the receipt of state aid by various economic entities and different areas of activity of both the region and the state.

The characteristics of constituencies in the Chernihiv region indicates the dominance of rural areas – only one district (205), located in Chernihiv, has exclusively urban population among voters. All other districts (206-210) have in their structure mainly rural areas, which influences the content of election promises of candidates who compete for deputy portfolios in these single-member districts.

Therefore, you can clearly monitor the specifics of software statements that provide for state support. Most applications are aimed at declaring state support or financing of government programs aimed at reviving the agricultural sector. It is noteworthy that it is not about individual enterprises, but is guided in general on the development of the agricultural sphere. Yes, the following options dominate the following:

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-State support for the village and the agricultural producer (Leshchenko, Rybakov, Rudkovsky)

-providing minimal (decent) purchase prices for agricultural and industrial products for small and medium -sized manufacturers, first of all, for milk, meat, potatoes and grain. (Atroshenko, Kurovsky, Polishchuk);

-State support for the creation of agricultural service and production cooperatives (Kurovsky, Rybakov).

Some candidates turn to the issue of returning special economic status to the territories of Chernihiv region, which are envisaged by certain state support. Thus, Vladislav Atroshenko and Stanislav Prokopenko candidates for MPs and Stanislav Prokopenko indicate not the need for a particular return to the format of the priority development zone (territory of priority development), which provides for tax benefits for an industrial and agricultural producer.

Also, a considerable number of candidates are referring to the need or development of new state targeted support programs or proper state financing of existing existing (Dnies, Petrov, Rybakov, Sokolov).

In general, the topic of state support is clearly manifested in the election programs of candidates. At the same time, limits on the number of signs in election programs do not allow to fully monitor or comply with candidates when forming the principles that have been offered to them.