Poroshenko was reminded how he defended Yanukovych in court
The representative of President Vladimir Zelensky in the Constitutional Court, Fyodor Venislavsky, would like to hear the motivation of the fifth president of the country, Petro Poroshenko, about sending to the Constitutional Court in 2015 a submission on the constitutionality of depriving Viktor Yanukovych of the title of President of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As the representative of the president in the Constitutional Court, I carried out an audit of the constitutional submissions from the president and found a very interesting submission made by the previous president Petro Poroshenko, which concerns the deprivation of the title of president of Ukraine from the fugitive president Yanukovych,” the press service of the President’s Office quotes Venislavsky.
In this constitutional submission, Poroshenko argued that the law by which Yanukovych was deprived of the title of President of Ukraine is unconstitutional and violates a number of norms of the Constitution of Ukraine.
Venislavsky noted that the Office of the President is currently “in a certain confusion as to what to do with this submission.”
“Because if you withdraw it, then the question will arise in connection with the fact that the submission has been considered for so long, and now we are withdrawing it. But to support us, we will be accused of wanting the previous president Yanukovych to be reinstated as president of Ukraine,” he explains.
“We don’t even know yet what to do with this idea, support it or withdraw it. And I would, of course, like to hear Petro Poroshenko’s motivation for introducing this proposal in 2015,” he added.
He noted that the motivation for why Poroshenko introduced it and initiated it is not clear to Zelensky’s Office.
“Perhaps this was not so much in the interests of Yanukovych, as Petro Alekseevich (Poroshenko - Ed.) was worried about his future,” emphasized Zelensky’s representative in the Constitutional Court.
Let us remind you that the fourth elected Viktor Yanukovych fled from Ukraine on February 21-22, 2014 after the coup d’etat and the seizure of power by the then opposition.
On February 4, 2015, the Verkhovna Rada deprived Yanukovych of the title of president by bill, and on February 9, the document was sent to the fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, for signature.
On June 17, the document was published in the parliamentary newspaper “Voice of Ukraine”. It came into force on June 18.
In June 2015, Poroshenko submitted a proposal to the Constitutional Court to declare unconstitutional the law on depriving Yanukovych of the title of President of Ukraine.
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