Lviv, May 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Lviv Regional Council has called on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to disband the Verkhovna Rada and denounce Kharkiv accords with Russia.
The council passed relevant appeals on Tuesday.
The first appeal states that after the amendment of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada has found itself in a difficult position in terms of legitimacy.
"When the Ukrainian people elected these MPs they did not expect them to have these new powers, and especially not such a majority, which was created by joining of individual lawmakers to the factions, which basing on the results of the 2007 elections, did not receive the support of the majority of voters," the document reads.
According to the appeal, another issue is the extension of the term of the parliament’s powers.
Deputies of the regional council are also worried about the parliament’s becoming an arena of political games of the parliamentary majority.
"This majority is destroying parliamentarism in Ukraine … turning the parliament into a branch of the executive power," the statement reads.
The second appeal adopted by Lviv Regional Council requests the president to denounce the so-called Kharkiv accords.
"We have received a prolongation of the Russian fleet’s deployment in Ukraine until 2042, and no benefits from this contract. We support the rhetorical question from the majority of citizens, the Fleet is staying. Where is the cheap gas?" the statement reads.
The deputies believe that Kharkiv agreement were political rather than economic.
"They are entirely political. Russia was solving exclusively geopolitical issues: to secure the presence of its fleet, which is the evidence of the power of the former Soviet empire and a symbol of the newly proclaimed campaign to establish ‘the Russian world.’ We strongly believe that sovereignty cannot be renounced or sold in exchange for the greater economic benefits and territories," the appeal to Ukraine’s president reads.
