Parubiy complained that not a single line could be removed from the bill on amendments to the Constitution
Speaker Andrei Parubiy advocates removing the clause on the peculiarities of self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions from the draft amendments to the Constitution regarding decentralization.
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About this he said in an interview with the Rada TV channel, the parliament’s press service reports.
“If it were my will, I would remove this clause, which is dependent on international treaties, and so that decentralization, on which there is consensus both in society and in the Verkhovna Rada, would carry out a reform so that it would work in Ukraine,” - he suggests.
“And with a separate provision and a separate draft law on amendments to the Constitution, we would consider the issue of the peculiarities of local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions,” noted the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.
“Unfortunately, this point has become the cause of not only political conflicts, but also public debate. And in fact, this clause does not allow the adoption of this important and key reform,” he said.
Parubiy believes that today it is too early to talk about the possibility of adopting amendments to the Constitution in terms of decentralization, along with a clause on the peculiarities of self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. At the same time, he noted that between the first and second reading “not a single point can be removed, not a single point or comma can be changed.”
In his opinion, it is necessary to start this process virtually from the beginning, removing the clause into a separate draft amendment to the Constitution, and then again a decision of the Constitutional Court and consideration in the first and second readings are necessary.
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