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All members of the Servants of the People faction agree that the Constitutional Court is losing public legitimacy and judges cannot do without a political evaluation, said Iryna Vereshchuk, the faction’s people’s deputy. She believes that parliament will not vote for President Volodymyr Zelensky’s bill on the dissolution of the KSU and will not come to a vote.
People’s Deputy of the Servant of the People Iryna Vereshchuk believes that the presidential bill, which provides for the termination of the powers of the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, will not be put to a vote in parliament. She said this on November 2 in a comment to LB.ua.
“What I can predict: It’s the presidential bill that won’t go into the voting room. Since I don’t see the number of votes there, it seems to me that there are 226 of them, and it’s pretty obvious that this is definitely not the way I should have. ” we choose, looking for the constitutional legal plane, “said Vereshchuk.
According to her, all members of the faction agree that the Constitutional Court is losing public legitimacy and the judges cannot do without a political assessment. Vereshchuk said that the parliament will make a statement with such an assessment.
He noted that the bill presented by a group of people’s deputies headed by the speaker of parliament Dmitry Razumkov proposes to return everything that was canceled by the CCU decision to its previous state, and the Rada “takes two months to draw up amendments. to relevant anti-corruption laws. ” According to the People’s Deputy, this bill may be approved at a meeting of the Rada on November 4.
“We still do not need to go out and break the Constitution, so that each of our decisions is aggravated … We are restoring the previous state, it took us two months to make changes, we make a political statement,” he said.
Vereshchuk also allowed the cancellation of the decree on the appointment of Alexander Tupitsky as head of the Constitutional Court and the return to this position of the former president of the court, Stanislav Shevchuk.
The media reported that the Servant of the People faction lacks 226 votes to pass the bill.
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 responsibility for declaring deliberately inaccurate data, as well as the deliberate failure to present statements, is an excessive punishment for committing such crimes.
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC), in relation to the decision of the CCU, closed access to the registry of electronic returns and stopped their verification, storage and publication. The agency chief called the KSU’s decision “a crushing defeat for the anti-corruption reform.”
In addition, as a result of the blocking of the NAPK’s access to state records, the National Agency cannot perform a special verification of the statements of candidates for leadership positions in state bodies, therefore the winners of local elections they cannot be appointed to their positions, the NAPK said.
The president of the Constitutional Court, Alexander Tupitsky, said that the NAPK “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.
After the NSDC meeting in compliance with Cabinet order Open access NAPK to the registry of electronic returns.
October 29, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky registered a bill in the Verkhovna Rada, who are invited to recognize the decision of the Constitutional Court as unlawful, deprive the entire composition of the court and appoint a new one, as well as ensure the continuity of anti-corruption legislation.
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 Sierva del Pueblo faction, the president called on the people’s deputies to support the removal of the judges from the Constitutional Court.
On November 2, the parliament registered a draft law authored by Razumkov and a group of people’s deputies on the renewal of certain provisions of the Ukrainian law “On the prevention of corruption”. The bill assumes that within two months the Cabinet of Ministers must present proposals to parliament to resolve certain issues raised in the decision of the Constitutional Court.
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