{"id":51885,"date":"2025-07-24T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=51885"},"modified":"2025-07-24T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:59:05","slug":"zelenskiy-approves-bill-preserving-independence-of-anti-corruption-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/zelenskiy-approves-bill-preserving-independence-of-anti-corruption-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy Approves Bill &#8216;Preserving Independence&#8217; of Anti-corruption Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy approved draft legislation on Thursday that he said would restore the independence of the country&#8217;s anti-corruption agencies, reversing course after an outburst of public criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Measures enacted earlier this week that established greater control by the prosecutor general, a political appointee, over the two bodies had fuelled rare wartime protests and had thrown Kyiv&#8217;s EU bid into question.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy said on X he had approved the draft for submission to parliament later in the day, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important that we are maintaining unity. It is important that we are preserving independence. It is important that we respect the position of all Ukrainians,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy, whose image as a tireless leader of the three-year-old war against Russia&#8217;s invasion has been tarnished by the controversy, said the text of the new bill is &#8220;well-balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He did not give further details, saying only that it &#8220;guarantees real strengthening of Ukraine&#8217;s law enforcement system, independence of anti-corruption agencies, and reliable protection&#8230;against any Russian influence&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy approved draft legislation on Thursday that he said would restore the independence of the country&#8217;s anti-corruption agencies, reversing course after an outburst of public criticism. Measures enacted earlier this week that established greater control by the prosecutor general, a political appointee, over the two bodies had fuelled rare wartime protests and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51887,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51885\/revisions\/51887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}