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The Constitutional Court of Ukraine can be moved from Kiev, but this will take up to five years. On this subject, its director Alexander Tupitsky has already met with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine (KSU) is ready to move to Kharkiv, department head Alexander Tupitsky said in a briefing on October 30, which was broadcast by hromadske.
“A letter was sent from the Cabinet of Ministers [Украины] calculate how much it costs to move to another city. I called the vice minister and the deadline expired in the afternoon, in the morning to do it. I say, “Are you kidding or what? How can you do those calculations?” He said.
At the KSU, at the request of the Cabinet of Ministers, they calculated how much such a move would cost. The approximate figures are from 1.3 to 1.5 billion UAH.
“These are general calculations. It is necessary to carry out some kind of expert opinion, not the accounting department of the Constitutional Court. But for some reason the Cabinet did not want to do this,” he added. – said the head of the CCU.
The term of the move, according to Tupitsky, is three to five years. He has already met with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on this issue.
“I briefed him on the situation with the move. I think the president may have had the right idea. He wanted several of those institutions, including the Constitutional Court, to be transferred to other regions of Ukraine, so that, perhaps, the same pressure no This would be the case of the Constitutional Court. It is possible to strengthen the regions, “said Tupitsky.
At the same time, not a single judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine said that he would resign if the court were moved to another region or city.
“Also, I said that if this is a situation, then the parliament actually creates a car, we will hook it up and pull it and, if we wish, we will shorten the moving time. Maybe one year. Two premises can be used. Yes. necessary for state policy, at least we are ready today, even tomorrow, ”Tupitsky said.
He added that in the matter of relocation problems could arise with the judges and the judicial apparatus.
“There are specialists here, and they are very good, you cannot transfer everyone there, they may not want to. Where can I find a new secretariat there? They are qualified specialists. Therefore, it would take at least a three-year period to move the court. There was no doubt the resistance of the judges, even tomorrow “- said Tupitsky.
The head of the KSU noted that he does not view the move to Kharkov as pressure.
The Verkhovna Rada has already registered on April 3, bill no. 3300 on the transfer of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to Kharkiv. He’s still in the profile committee work.
On October 27, 2020, the Constitutional Court canceled part of the provisions of the anti-corruption laws and indicated that the establishment of criminal responsibility for declaring deliberately inaccurate data, as well as the deliberate omission to present statements, is an excessive punishment for the commission of such crimes.
The G7 and the European Union expressed concern about this decision. Ukraine’s ambassador to the EU, Mykola Tochitskiy, in a letter addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Olga Stefanishina, said that the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine could become the reason for the suspension of the visa-free regime With the European Union.
On October 28, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, in connection with the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, closed access to the registry of electronic statements and stopped verifying, storing and publishing them. Agency chief Alexander Novikov called the KSU’s decision “a crushing defeat for anti-corruption reform.” The NAPC considers that the judges of the Constitutional Court ruled the unconstitutionality of criminal responsibility for false statements in their own interest, since the agency had previously identified indications of false information in the statements of two of them.
During an emergency meeting of the National Defense and Security Council on October 29, Zelensky announced the presentation to the Verkhovna Rada of an urgent bill on restoring the integrity of constitutional procedures. On the same day, the bill was registered in parliament.
After the meeting of the NSDC, in compliance with the order of the Cabinet of Ministers, NAPK opened access to the register of electronic returns.
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