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As I understand it, the interim President is a member of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party
which, on reading about it, sounds like a mix of the conservative republican party in the US and socialism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Ukrainian_Union_%22Fatherland%22
Ideology and stances
Batkivshchyna has an eclectic ideology; the party stated it advocates "European values" and "a high level of living for people".
The party wants to simplify procedures for opening and closing of businesses. It also wants to "establish a new minimum wage and will raise wages and pensions and lower taxes" and it wants to limit the kinds of taxes to seven and simplify the methods of payment and "minimise the possibility of tax evasion through offshore companies". It also wants to create "public non-profit construction company that will build affordable housing".
The party wants a campaign against corruption. It advocates an "anti-corruption lustration" whereby state officials' expenses and property values are compared with their tax declarations. If there is a discrepancy, the officials will be criminally charged and banned from public office. It wants to establish a "National Anti-Corruption Bureau" modeled on the FBI (an idea that has circulated in Ukraine since the late 1990s). The party believes that what has been "stolen" through corrupt tenders and insider privatizations should be returned to the state budget. Organizing election fraud will be criminally liable and voting in parliament for absent lawmakers punishable.
According to the party, only citizens of Ukraine will have the right to private ownership of land, but "high concentration of land in one hand" will not be allowed.
The party sees Ukrainian membership in the European Union (EU) as a strategic goal and wants to "cancel humiliating visa regimes" and a visa-free travel for Ukrainians to the EU. It would like to see "a mutually beneficial and equitable agreement on the establishment of free trade with Russia". In June 2013 the parties parliamentary faction voted for the denunciation of the 2010 Ukrainian–Russian Naval Base for Natural Gas treaty. The parties 2012 election program did not mention NATO.
The party wants to prosecute "Law enforcement involved in political repression" and to impeach current Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his “anti-people regime” to "return Ukraine to the path of European integration".
The party tries to reverse the Azarov Government policy of raising the status of the Russian language.
The party is in favor of party-list proportional representation elections with open lists. And Citizens' Initiative's after 50,000 signatures are collected. The party also wants to empower local governance.
Government grants should be awarded to graduates who successfully passed testing for studies at Ukrainian universities.
The basis of Ukraine's health system will be mandatory health insertion and the gradual development of voluntary health insurance by employers.
The party wants to introduce jury trials into the Ukrainian law system and wants to "depoliticise" the process of appointment of judges. It also wants an independent judiciary that will increase the role of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine, "which has compromised itself with decisions that were ordered (by the Yanukovych administration)," should be liquidated.
The criminal code be "Europeanized" and law enforcement brought under civil control.
The party wants to improve human rights in Ukraine.
The party believes that the Holodomor was genocide of the Ukrainian nation.
It appears they have a plan for governance. I heard in some videos they want to protect their elderly and disabled.
EDIT:
I thought perhaps the former leader was enforcing austerity measures already, but it turns out he was just supporting the oligarchy and leaving people with no redress for their greviances.
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