Chesno

Civil movement "Chesno"

Founded	October 29, 2011
Type	Political transparency
Focus	transparency of politicians
Location	Kiev, Ukraine
Area served	Ukraine
Website	chesno

Civil movement "Chesno" (meaning honestly, fairly) (Template:Lang-uk, Hromadyansky rukh CHESNO) is a Ukrainian public organization that emerged late in 2011 to advance a fair election process. It became widely known for its critical analysis and evaluation of politicians and the national parliament (Verkhovna Rada) in Ukraine. The organization provides a public familiarization of political culture and every individual legislator as well as candidates to the People's Deputies of Ukraine in the country.

Its logo is a garlic (Template:Lang-uk) which was chosen as a "way for disinfection and fight with impure forces".

History

The movement was initiated late 2011 by a group of interested activists along with representatives of a partnership "New Citizen". The movement was founded on October 29, 2011 exactly a year before the next parliamentary elections in Ukraine during the public action "Let's filter the parliament in 24 hours" (Template:Lang-uk). The purpose is to activate the society in order to cleanse the future parliament from the ignominious deputies.

The public presentation of the movement took place on December 9, 2011 when Chesno members initiated the campaign "Filter the council" (Template:Lang-uk).

On July 23, 2012 Chesno published its first results of monitoring, according to which only three parliamentary corresponded to the virtue criteria. Those were the vice-chairman of the parliament Mykola Tomenko, Oleksandr Hudyma, and the newly elected former Minister of Economy (Fokin Government) Volodymyr Lanovyi.

On October 16, 2012 Chesno published its results of monitoring for the deputy candidates who run at the electoral districts of the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In the parliament elected in that election several deputies at the request of Chesno regularly reported on their activities in parliament.

Virtue criteria

Every parliamentary or prospective candidate is being evaluated by the "Chesnometer" that consists of several criteria of virtue.

• absence of facts of human rights and freedoms violations
• immutability of political position according to the will of voters
• no relation to corrupt acts
• transparency of declared income and assets and compliance of those with lifestyle
• personal voting in parliament
• participation in meetings of parliament and committees

Values of Chesno

• Openness
• Independence
• Trust
• Endurance and tolerance
• Transparency
• Networking
• Self-governance
• Consensus
• Goodwill

Coordination board

• Internews-Ukraine
• United Actions Center UA
• Institute of Mass Information
• Committee of voters of Ukraine (CVU)
• Center of political studies and analysis
• Media Law Institute
• Ilko Kucheriv Fund "Democratic Initiatives"
• Souspilnist Foundation (Society)
• Anti-raider Union of Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
• People's Solidarity
• Ukrainian view
• Kholodny-yar Initiative (Cold-ravine)

Principles

The following is a list of 16 development principles and organizational rules for the campaign "Filter the council".

External links

• Template:Uk icon Template:En icon Official website of Chesno
• Chesno on facebook, facebook
• More details on criteria
• Video "Start of the Civil movement Chesno" (youtube)
• Electua.org - We follow elections
• Promotional video of chesnometer for candidates into the Ukrainian parliament (youtube)
• What is Chesno? (youtube)
• Mezhyhirya i Chesno (youtube)