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Constitutionalism or mockery of the Constitution?
In adopting the Constitution in 1996, the citizens of Ukraine had every reason to see the beginning of a qualitatively new stage in the life of the state, a decisive step on the path of democratic…
Read article →Peculiarities of national electoral lawmaking
The very fact of introducing amendments to the election legislation during the election process on the eve of the repeat voting day deserves a negative assessment.
Read article →The Party of Regions managed to introduce amendments to the election law that abolish the 2/3 quorum for election commissions.
The law increased State Budget expenditures under the program "Covering the deficit of funds of the Pension Fund of Ukraine for pension payments" by UAH 717 million and the volume of the subvention from the state budget to local budgets for the payment of assistance to families with children, low-income families,…
President Viktor Yushchenko has challenged the new version of the law on presidential elections in the Constitutional Court.
Thus, on June 4, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy postponed consideration of the draft law "On Public Organizations" (No. 3371). The reason was not officially announced.
The Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the budget that removed Articles 84 and 86 regarding the government's control over bank refinancing by the National Bank. \n \n333 deputies voted in favor. \n \nAs is known, the International Monetary Fund insisted on the removal of these articles.
A leaflet with this content is being distributed in Kyiv universities. It turns out one can get rich thanks to the Ukrainian language. Here is its text:
The Verkhovna Rada recognized the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide against the Ukrainian people. 233 people's deputies voted for the adoption of the corresponding law. \n \nIn particular, "for" voted 2 people's deputies from the Party of Regions faction; BYuT - 118, NU - 79, SPU - 30, CPU - 0. Non-factional - 4 \n \n
Ukrainian People's Deputies Mykola TOMENKO and Olena BONDARENKO (BYuT faction) have submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law "On Amending and Supplementing Certain Laws of Ukraine (Regarding Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men in the Electoral Process).
