Executive Director of the ALI Svitlana Matviienko on Air of Radio Svoboda

Amid the recent news of personnel reshuffles in the Government, including the dismissal of the heads of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food and the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, people are talking a lot about what is happening behind the scenes. However, very little is said about the aspects that shape the presentation, communication, and, ultimately, decision-making on important state issues.

Executive Director of the ALI Svitlana Matviienko spoke on the air of Radio Svoboda about the format of decision-making on personnel changes, their communication, and what society should pay special attention to in these processes:

“I think that all of us, both the expert community and civil society, should talk about three key things: political culture – how the liberation processes took place; institutions – how all the ministries are merged and separated for a particular person, and how this destroys the institutional capacity of the state; and responsibility – whether certain decisions are responsible. These criteria should be the main ones for us as a country at war”
Svitlana Matviienko
Executive Director of the ALI

So, no ministerial term, especially during a full-scale war, has ever gone perfectly. However, given the current personnel hunger and the reluctance of people to take up leadership positions, decisions to fire certain individuals seem somewhat unreasonable.

At the same time, you can decide whether the proposal to separate the ministries (of infrastructure and communities and territories development) again aligns with the Government’s idea of optimising ministries in general by reading the Agency’s latest article here.

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