On September 8, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko finally decided on a decisive step and dissolved the government in full. \t \n \nInstead, the Verkhovna Rada, on the same day, adopted amendments to the "Law on Deputies of Local Councils" and returned immunity to deputies. \n \nIn particular, the amendments to the Law provide for the establishment of a special procedure for holding a local council deputy criminally and administratively liable. This procedure provides for the prior consent of the relevant local council to the application of preventive measures to a deputy in the form of a written undertaking not to leave, detention in custody in connection with the investigation of a criminal case, or measures of administrative penalty. \n \nOleksandr Adamov, deputy of the Kalininsky district council of Donetsk, honorary chairman of the USMD: \n \n- I have a negative attitude toward the adoption of the amendments to the Law. Since the path to electoral lists is open to people who have problems with the law. And this, firstly, will lead to a decrease in public trust in local councils, and secondly, to a decrease in the capacity of the councils themselves, because people who bought deputy seats only for the sake of deputy immunity, and not for the sake of working for the benefit of the community, will sit in them. Why were such amendments adopted? I believe that the initiators simply want to earn political dividends from this. Local councils are more popular and enjoy greater authority among the local population than the Verkhovna Rada. In addition, even now the VRU deputies face the problem of forming deputy factions and lobbying for places on electoral lists. Thus, when a person wants to run for the post of people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, testing their immunity, they may be offered an alternative - a seat in a local council. A kind of "economy package." In my opinion, the President should veto this law.