Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for the cancellation of the parliamentary immunity, and expressed the hope that the newly elected Verkhovna Rada will do this.
“My dream is that one of the first initiatives of the parliament will be the cancellation of parliamentary immunity at least for the next Verkhovna Rada. I think that we will see that we are building a free democratic state,” Poroshenko said in Lviv on Oct. 3, the president’s press service reported.
The head of state expressed the hope that until the newly elected Verkhovna Rada takes this decision, if there is evidence of certain MPs’ involvement in any offence, they should be stripped of their immunity, regardless of their political affiliation.
“I plan and dream to build such a state, where the disclosure of any offense should not depend on the president giving an order the prosecutor’s office. If a crime is committed, parliamentary immunity should protect no one,” the president said.
