President Victor Yushchenko wants Ukraine’s new democratic government to preserve national unity, redraft next year’s budget and introduce economic and social reforms, according to the President`s press-office.

“To my mind, it has always been the function of any government to propose a national action plan, especially a plan of economic and social changes,” he said during a regional teleconference in Sumy on Tuesday and added that the country “has lost many opportunities” over the past year and a half because the cabinet had “no clear plan of economic actions.”

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“Preserving the nation`s unity is what I would make the government’s main role, task and mission,” he said.

Yushchenko urged the country`s next government to battle corruption and develop healthcare and education, calling these steps a “quintessence”  of its performance.

He then described the Yanukovych cabinet’s budget deficit estimates as unacceptable and insisted that the country’s budget deficit must not be higher than 2% of GDP. He pledged to “teach the government to stop taking such extravagant loans."