Ukrainian parliament refuses to register two documents on returning 2004 Constitution - opposition
KYIV. Feb 17 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian opposition demands parliament register two draft resolutions on the procedure to return the 2004 Constitution and to vote on them on February 20, leader of the Batkivshchyna faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
"We demand that our draft resolutions be registered, be included on the agenda tomorrow and pass relevant field-specific committees on Wednesday [February 19] and that we put for vote on Thursday [February 20] two our acts - the constitution act which was submitted today with signatures of over 200 people's deputies and the resolution of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada of the 1996 version of the Constitution - so that the Ukrainian people can see who votes in which way and which party supports what," Yatsenyuk said during a meeting of the coordination board of factions and parliamentary committee heads in Kyiv on Monday.
The administration in parliament refuses to register these documents, Yatsenyuk said.
The Verkhovna Rada resolution on the 1996 Constitution stipulates all the facts on passing rulings by the Constitutional Court, Yatsenyuk said.
The Constitutional Court does not have the right to reconsider the Constitution and the 2010 rulings of the Constitutional Court were corrupt, Yatsenyuk said.
"Submitting amendments and annexes to the Constitution should be held in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution," Yatsenyuk said.
The Verkhovna Rada does not have the authority to cancel the ruling of the Constitutional Court of 2010, the Ukrainian president's representative in the parliament, Deputy of the Party of Regions faction Yuriy Myroshnychenko said.
"The ruling of the Constitutional Court concerned the law on amending the Constitution, which was passed by the Verkhovna Rada with procedural violations and, thus, was recognized as not complying with the Constitution. The law on the Constitutional Court stipulates removing these standards from the legislative field of Ukraine. Thus, the rulings of the Constitutional Court can not be cancelled, this is stipulated in the very law on the Constitutional Court and Verkhovna Rada can not interfere in the activities of the Constitutional Court," Myroshnychenko said.
