The crook in trousers left swaggering European officials in the cold
The Verkhovna Rada, having adopted a law on the creation of an anti-corruption court at the request of the West, managed to deceive the Venice Commission, an advisory body on constitutional law created under the Council of Europe.
The famous Ukrainian lawyer Andrey Portnov writes about this on his Facebook page.
“The Venice Commission stated that it does not know anything about the scandalous norm falsified in the law on the anti-corruption court, which preserves the right of general courts to consider corruption cases for several more years. The commission stated that it did not require such a rule. And when you rushed with your laudatory statement to the Ukrainian authorities that an unprecedented judicial reform had taken place, thereby legalizing all this falsification, did such a thought not occur to you?” the lawyer asked.
He noted that deputies from the ruling coalition take representatives of the Venice Commission to Kyiv restaurants for a reason.
“Or maybe you don’t feel that you are being secretly and systematically used by the Ukrainian authorities for selfish political purposes, as was already the case with your coverage of lustration and judicial changes to the constitution? It was precisely your irresponsible statement that the adopted law was a great success, so before the IMF and international organizations you look just as marginal as the functionaries of the presidential administration and parliamentary coalition who deceived you with a key amendment,” Portnov concludes.
In turn, Elena Bondarenko, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of previous convocations, said that she was satisfied with this situation.
"I like this. At least once, these arrogant and presumptuous, poking their noses everywhere [members of the Venice Commission], were taught a lesson by an ordinary crook in trousers,” Bondarenko wrote in the comments to the post.
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