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The president of the Constitutional Court, Oleksandr Tupitskiy, believes that now any decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine “will be twisted, distorted and cause a stir.”
The head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Oleksandr Tupitskiy, said there are questions in considering the constitutionality of the language law. national minorities… He stated it in an interview with the Pryamiy television channel.
“According to the language, yesterday it was published that we had already made a decision, but today it was only on the agenda. The case has been heard for a long time, repeatedly, it is of great volume,” Tupitsky said.
The head of the Constitutional Court said that he, as a judge of the Constitutional Court, cannot say “what will be the decision or how it was voted as the basis”, otherwise he will have to write a rejection and withdraw from the case.
“It is difficult to imagine that the Constitutional Court will unconstitutionally oppose the people of Ukraine and will not try to improve the issues of nationality, culture, language of the Ukrainian people. To understand it, I will say: there are no special problems there. There are issues of national minorities, etc. Parliamentarians know better than I do that the next law will be approved, that it should regulate this issue in general. What is the HLE afraid of? Because it is possible that the second law, which would resolve all issues, for some reason reason is not adopted ”, he added.
According to Tupitsky, now any decision of the Constitutional Court “will be twisted, distorted and will cause a stir.”
According to the Constitution, the only state language in Ukraine is Ukrainian.
Consideration of the presentation of 51 people’s deputies on compliance with the Constitution of the law “On guaranteeing the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state” KSU began on July 7.
The authors of the constitutional communication indicate that the challenged law does not meet a number of requirements of the Constitution of Ukraine, as it is intended to discriminate against Russian and other languages of national minorities. Furthermore, the authors of the communication believe that the law was adopted in violation of constitutional procedure.
In July 2019, a law to ensure the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language came into force in Ukraine. The law states that the Ukrainian language is mandatory for use throughout the country in state and local authorities, as well as in public spheres of public life. The law does not apply to the field of private communication and religious rites.
According to a survey conducted in August 2020 by the Razumkov Center and the Ilko Kucheriv Foundation for Democratic Initiatives, the majority of Ukrainians (66.1%) believe that pThe Russian language should be used freely in private life, but Ukrainian should remain the only state language.
Ukraine’s language defender Taras Kremen said there are no obvious signs of oppression in the Russian-speaking country. He believes that the language issue in Ukraine is being raised artificially.
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