Chesno
| Founded | October 29, 2011 |
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| Type | Political transparency |
| Focus | transparency of politicians |
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Area served | Ukraine |
| Website | chesno |
Civil movement "Chesno" (meaning honestly, fairly) (Template:Lang-uk, Hromadyansky rukh CHESNO) is a Ukrainian public organization that 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[1] by a group of interested activists along with representatives of a partnership "New Citizen".[2] 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.[3] In the parliament elected in that election several deputies at the request of Chesno regularly reported on their activities in parliament.[4]
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".
References
- ^ Nations in Transit 2012 - Ukraine, Freedom House (6 June 2012)
- ^ Official website of New Citizen
- ^ Chesno about candidates. Ukrayinska Pravda. October 16, 2012.
- ^ Template:Uk icon Комуністка надала детальний звіт про свою депутатську діяльність Communist gave a detailed account of her parliamentary activities, Civil movement "Chesno" (30 July 2013)
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)