Poroshenko signs decree on Constitutional Commission composition
CHERNIHIV. March 31 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced on Tuesday that he had signed a decree on the Constitutional Commission's composition and warned that he expected to see results of its work in the near future.
"I signed a decree on endorsing the Constitutional Commission's composition, and I expect the soonest possible drafting of a decentralization bill from it," Poroshenko said while meeting with the leading officials of the Chernihiv regional administration on Tuesday.
Poroshenko had signed a decree on setting up the Constitutional Commission as a special presidential body on March 3. He nominated Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Hroysman as the Constitutional Commission's chairman and proposed that parliamentary factions and groups, the Cabinet of ministers, the Supreme Court, the top specialized courts, the Council of Judges, the associations of local self-government bodies, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Legal Sciences, the legal universities and colleges and legal research institutes, legal associations, and relevant international organizations submit their proposals on candidates for the Constitutional Commission by March 12.
