At a special plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court was elected

On Tuesday, September 19, at a special plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the head of the CC was elected - Ivan Dombrovsky (quota of the congress of judges) became him. He had been acting as head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine since August 7, as the oldest by age.

Ivan Dombrovsky worked as a judge of the Supreme Court since 1997, and since 2003 - judge, secretary of the plenum of the Supreme Court. In November 2005, at the seventh congress of judges of Ukraine, he was appointed judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. On August 4, 2006, after taking the oath, he assumed the position of judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Since August 7, 2006, he performed the duties of Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

The CC consists of 18 judges. Six judges each are appointed by the president, parliament and the congress of judges.

On August 4, the Verkhovna Rada elected five CC judges under its quota and administered the oath to 14 judges elected and appointed by parliament, the president and the congress of judges. These are Anatoliy Holovin, Mykhailo Kolos, Mariya Markush, Vyacheslav Ovcharenko and Petro Stetsyuk, elected under the quota of the Verkhovna Rada, Vyacheslav Dzhun, Anatoliy Didkivsky, Ivan Dombrovsky, Yaroslava Machuzhak, Vasyl Bryntsev and Andriy Stryzhak, elected by the congress of judges, as well as Volodymyr Kampo, Dmytro Lylak and Viktor Shyshkin, appointed under the President's quota.

On October 18, 2005, the term of office of nine judges of the Constitutional Court expired, 5 positions in the CCU remained vacant, and until August 2006 only four CCU judges were working - Volodymyr Ivashchenko, Valeriy Pshenychny, Syuzanna Stanik (all three - President's quota) and Pavlo Tkachuk (VR quota).

After all vacancies were filled, the CC became plenipotentiary and began work. One of the priority items on the court's agenda until today was the election of the CC head.

The head of the Constitutional Court is elected at a special plenary session from among the judges for one three-year term by secret ballot without the right to re-election. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, judges are appointed for 9 years without the right to be appointed for a repeat term.