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“Oposition Platform – For Life” called on the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine not to succumb to threats and blackmail.
Oposition Platform – For Life stated that it supports the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in the conflict with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The open appeal was published on November 4 on the website of the political force.
“The authorities launched a large-scale attack on the judicial system. This is because it is the independent judiciary that is the main obstacle to the implementation of plans to transfer the country under external control, loot its wealth, destroy the social status in Ukraine. The Ze-Brigade’s attack on the Constitution of Ukraine is suffocating. The government, which has betrayed the interests of the people, finds no support either in society or in parliament. That is why personal pressure is increasing on the judges of the Constitutional Court. Criminal cases are opened against him. Paid radicals are installed in the court. Atrocious threats of physical violence are heard, “the statement said. …
Party members added that now “meek servants” have joined this pressure, weakly signing the written appeal under the dictates of Vladimir Zelensky’s office and his foreign embassy curators. “
“Oposition Platform – For Life” asks the judges of the Constitutional Court not to succumb to threats and blackmail. The responsibility for the fate of Ukrainian democracy and the future of our country rests today on your shoulders. We ask you not to leave your post and not resign under pressure from the broken and outgoing Ze Brigade. By resisting the designs of the usurpers who dream of a dictatorship, all democratic social forces support you. Uniting in defense of the Constitution, the democratic principles of the Ukrainian State, Ukrainian sovereignty and the rights of Ukrainian citizens, we will definitely win. It is true that the Constitution and democracy are on their side. “
On October 27, 2020, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine canceled some of the provisions of the anti-corruption laws and indicated that the establishment of criminal liability for declaring deliberately inaccurate data, as well as the deliberate failure to provide statements, is an excessive punishment for committing such crimes.
National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in relation to the decision of the Constitutional Court October 28 It closed access to the electronic tax returns registry and stopped its verification, storage and publication. Head of agency Alexander Novikov He called the Constitutional Court’s decision “a crushing defeat for the anti-corruption reform.”
The president of the Constitutional Court, Alexander Tupitsky, said that the NAPK had “deliberately dispersed the situation”, the judge of the Constitutional Court Igor Slidenko said that the decision of the court did not foresee the need to close the registry.
October 29 nafter the NSDC meeting pursuant to Cabinet order Open access NAPK to the registry of electronic returns.
The same day Zelensky registered a bill in the Verkhovna Rada, who are invited to recognize the decision of the Constitutional Court as illegal, deprive the entire composition of the court and appoint a new one, as well as ensure the continuity of anti-corruption legislation. Tupitsky said that this pThe bill has indications of a constitutional coup and contradicts two articles of the Constitution of Ukraine.
Representatives of the Council of Europe criticized Zelensky’s bill on October 31. In response, the NAPC declared that the Constitutional Court violated the Constitution of Ukraine at least twice. On November 2, in a meeting with the parliamentary fraction Servant of the People, the President urged support for the removal of the magistrates of the Constitutional Court.
At the same time, the spokesman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Razumkov registered the bill On the Renewal of Certain Provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption”. Document of November 3 supported by the profile committee.
226 people’s deputies signed and submitted a declaration to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine asking the judges to resign voluntarily. At the same time, it is observed that it does not apply to all judges: the deputies intend to obtain the resignation of 11 judges who supported the decision to repeal some of the provisions of the anti-corruption laws.
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