| Constitutional Court throws out two MP inquiries |
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| Saturday, 09 February 2008 19:52 |
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The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has decided to stop proceedings on the constitutionality of President Viktor Yushchenko's decree of 5 June calling an early parliamentary election on 30 September, the court's press service reported today. The court quoted an absence of the right of submission as the reason. The press service recalled that 46 MPs had asked the court to launch the proceedings. The decree of 5 June was the third presidential decree on calling an early election. Yushchenko signed this decree after MPs of his Our Ukraine bloc and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc surrendered their mandates as MPs prematurely so to provide a legal basis for an early election. The Constitutional Court also refused to open constitutional proceedings in the case of the submission by 102 MPs on the constitutionality of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine and the law on the Constitutional Court. The court said that the submission was out of line with the Constitution and the law on the Constitutional Court. |
