People's Deputy Mykhailo Pozhyvanov (faction "Our Ukraine") on September 20 registered in the Constitutional Court a constitutional petition by a group of people's deputies regarding the unconstitutionality of the law that prohibits the Constitutional Court from reviewing the law on political reform. This was reported by Pozhyvanov's press service.\n\n\nThe press service notes that the basis for the petition is the unconstitutionality of the provisions of the law "On Amending Section 4, Final and Transitional Provisions, of the Law 'On the Constitutional Court'."\n\n\nIn particular, this law provides that the CC has no right to conduct a review of constitutional amendments that were adopted by parliament on December 8, 2004, and entered into force.\n\n\nPozhyvanov notes that when adopting this law, the deputies appealed to the fact that from the moment the Law "On Amending the Constitution of Ukraine" entered into force, it became an integral part of the Constitution itself. At the same time, the people's deputy notes that the Law "On Amending the Constitution of Ukraine" was adopted by parliament in the same way as all other laws, regarding which, before the Constitutional Court, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the question may be raised of their compliance with the Fundamental Law due to a violation of the adoption procedure.\n\n\nPozhyvanov believes that parliament, when adopting this law, acted contrary to the requirements of the Constitution and the law on the CC, "thereby impermissibly attempting to interfere in the powers of the constitutional court and to influence the activity of judges."\n\n\nThe people's deputy also believes that the adopted law contradicts the fundamental provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine regarding the division of state power into legislative, executive, and judicial.\n\n\nRecall that earlier, Presidential Advisor, Head of the Main Service for Institutional Development Policy Ihor Koliushko stated that the CC has every grounds to recognize as unconstitutional the law that prohibits making any changes to the draft law on political reform. "I think that this law has gone beyond the Constitution. And if someone challenges this law, then it seems to me that there are great chances that it may be annulled by the Constitutional Court," he said. "It seems to me that this law has limited the constitutional powers of the Constitutional Court," Koliushko added, noting that he was expressing his own point of view.\n\n\nOn August 4, the Verkhovna Rada amended the Law "On the Constitutional Court," which provides that "the Constitutional Court has no right to conduct a review of the amendments introduced to the Constitution of Ukraine that were adopted in 2004."\n\n