Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Andriy Mahera has said he hopes that the Higher Council of Justice (HCJ) will thoroughly study the activity of the judges of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine (HACU), who issued a verdict on terminating the powers of MPs Oleksandr Dombrovsky and Pavlo Baloha.
“I have serious doubts about the constitutionality of this decision by HACU,” he told reporters on Monday.
“Frankly speaking, this is not the first decision by HACU that makes
me wonder. I think if a motion is submitted to the Higher Council of
Justice regarding the activity of such judges, I hope that the HCJ will
thoroughly analyze the activity of such judges,” he added.
As reported, the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on Friday
declared as inaccurate the results of the election of people’s deputies
in single-seat constituency No. 11 (Vinnytsia region) and single-seat
constituency No. 71 (Zakarpattia region), where Dombrovsky and Baloha,
respectively, were declared winners of the 2012 parliamentary election
in Ukraine and obliged the CEC to hold repeat elections in these
constituencies.
Batkivschyna faction leader Arseniy Yatseniuk said that the main
reason for the termination of the powers of MPs Baloha and Dombrovsky
was their refusal to join the Regions Party and proposed dismissing the
judges of the second chamber of the Higher Administration Court of
Ukraine who decided to deprive the MPs of their powers.
A respective draft resolution was registered as No. 2262 on the Web
site of the Verkhovna Rada on Monday. Yatseniuk proposed dismissing
judges Natalia Blazhivska, Oleksandr Vedeniapin, Mykhailo Zaitsev, Oleh
Kravtsov, Inna Maslo, Yuriy Tsvirkun and Eduard Shved.
