Rada fails to come to terms on proposed Tuesday debates of 2004 constitution return
KYIV. Feb 4 (Interfax) - The leaders of the Ukrainian parliament and factions have failed to come to terms on the proposed Tuesday debates of Ukraine's return to the 2004 constitution.
Svoboda faction leader Oleh Tyahnybok said the parliamentary majority do not plan to discuss this issue.
"They did not reach any agreements, as far as I know, and they do not want to raise the issue of constitutional reform," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Asked whether the opposition will block the Rada's work on Tuesday, he said this is normally decided in seconds depending on circumstances.
Deputy Ihor Shvaika of the Svoboda faction, in turn, criticized the agenda for Tuesday's plenary session. "Holding debates on changing the borders of populated areas when people remain behind bars is an outrage," he said.
Leader of the Batkivshchina parliamentary faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Monday that the opposition had drawn up an act on Ukraine's return to the 2004 constitution and is ready to vote for it on Tuesday. Yatsenyuk urged Speaker Volodymyr Rybak to discuss in what way the act should be debated.
Party of Regions faction leader Oleksandr Yefremov said the Verkhovna Rada had registered a resolution that would return the country to the 2004 constitution. But he also said that he had not seen the constitutional act the opposition was talking about.
