There is a new coup and a new head in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
At a special plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, judges of the Constitutional Court Mikhail Gultai, Mikhail Zaporozhets and Natalya Shaptala, who previously held the post of Chairman of the Court, were relieved of their positions, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the Communications Department of the Constitutional Court and Legal Monitoring, all three judges were dismissed in accordance with paragraph 4 of part two of Article 149-1 of the Constitution of Ukraine on the basis of their resignation letters.
The press service of the court recalled that in accordance with the law “On the Constitutional Court of Ukraine”, a judge of this court is appointed for 9 years without the right to be reappointed. At the same time, Gultai, Zaporozhets and Shaptala were appointed judges of the Constitutional Court by the X Congress of Judges of Ukraine on September 16, 2010, and took the oath on September 21 of the same year. On May 21 of this year, Shaptala was sworn in as President Vladimir Zelensky.
On September 17, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, at a special plenary session, dismissed the chairman of the Constitutional Court, Natalya Shaptala, from the position of judge of this court, and also elected a new chairman and his deputy, who became judges Alexander Tupitsky and Sergei Golovaty, respectively. Tupitsky was appointed by Viktor Yanukovych and it was he who was nominated to head the Constitutional Court after the illegal removal from office in the spring of this year of the then head of the USU Stanislav Shevchuk.
“The term of judicial office of the previous head of the Constitutional Court, Natalya Shaptala, ends on September 22. She needed to appoint a replacement. But still the KSU was in a hurry. In a few days, the powers of three judges will expire. New judges were supposed to be appointed to replace them, but the old composition did not want to wait for renewal,” says Yulia Kirichenko, project manager for constitutional law issues at the Center for Political Affairs, in a commentary to the Liga publication.
“They decided to choose a new head with the participation of those three judges whose powers are ending. But in an amicable way they should have elected a new composition, there are candidates,” says Kirichenko.
Tupitsky was appointed to the Constitutional Court in 2013; his powers as a judge will end in 2021. Accordingly, so do the powers of the head.
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