The National Anti-Corruption Council held a meeting on the consequences of the Constitutional Court’s decision
The head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, announced three steps that the authorities must take to overcome the constitutional crisis. He said this after a meeting of the National Council for Anti-Corruption Policy, which took place on Friday evening, November 27.
” To take these steps, all authorities must act in a coordinated and effective manner. Representatives of the government and people’s deputies, together with the expert community, should promptly finalize the relevant legislative initiatives, and the Verkhovna Rada should adopt them as soon as possible , ” he said.
According to him, to get out of the crisis, the government must take the following actions:
restoration of criminal liability for intentional failure to provide a declaration or providing false information in declarations;
restoration of the NAPC’s authority to monitor electronic declaration and to settle the issue of judges’ declarations;
settling the issue of NABU formation and ensuring the guarantee of its director’s activity.
It will be recalled that on October 27, the Constitutional Court abolished criminal liability for declaring unreliable information. This decision was supported by 11 judges of the CCU . After that, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption closed access to electronic declarations of officials.
On October 29, the Cabinet of Ministers ordered the NAPC to restore access to the register of officials’ declarations. According to Prime Minister Denis Shmygal, Ukrainians will have access to declarations on October 30. On the night of October 30, the registry resumed work. The government also obliged the authorities not to comply with the scandalous decision of the CCU, despite the fact that the decisions of the CCU are binding.
President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced a bill in parliament proposing to terminate the powers of judges of the Constitutional Court , to recognize its decision to abolish criminal liability for falsely declaring “insignificant” and without legal consequences, and to repeal the relevant amendments to the law “On Prevention of Corruption.” The head of the Constitutional Court, Oleksandr Tupytsky, called the bill a sign of a constitutional coup.
