Gontareva accuses populists of undermining "fragile stability"

Populism and political insinuations undermine the fragile macroeconomic stability our country sees in the last year and a half, NBU Governor Valeria Gontareva said at a meeting of the National Bank Council.

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"This flirting with populism and political insinuations undermine macroeconomic stability of our country," she said.

She noted that the National Bank of Ukraine has been under political pressure for almost two months.

Read alsoUkraine tranche not on IMF agenda in Nov"The risk is that structural reforms that are necessary to ensure the stability of our economy are getting slower and slower. Lawmakers hamper reforms that we have agreed with our international creditors and the IMF. This is pension reform and reform of the land market," Gontareva said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Gontareva said that Ukraine was facing a threat of losing support of international financial institutions and not receiving another tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this year.

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