The Batkivschyna Party is drafting a motion to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine regarding the compliance with the country's constitution of the laws on the special status of certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and on the amnesty for members of armed groups operating in eastern Ukraine, which were adopted at a closed parliament meeting on Sept. 16.
‘We are immediately preparing a motion to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine,’ party leader Yulia Tymoshenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
She noted that the Batkivschyna Party wants to go this way ‘to repeal these absolutely unconstitutional laws’ and added that if the Constitutional Court does not acknowledge that the laws passed by parliament do not comply with the constitution, it will be necessary to carry out the lustration of the Constitutional Court.
She also said that the Batkivschyna faction was going to prove that the results of the vote for both bills on Tuesday were falsified.
It was reported that at its session, held behind closed doors on Tuesday, the Verkhovna Rada passed a presidential bill introducing a special self-administration regime for specific districts in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions for a three-year period and calling early local elections in these regions on Dec. 7, 2014.
The Verkhovna Rada also passed a bill guaranteeing no criminal prosecution for certain categories of persons who committed criminal offenses between Feb. 22, 2014, and the effective date of the law in those parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions where the antiterrorist operation was taking place.
