Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko believes that the position of certain factions in the parliamentary coalition on voting against the decentralization-related amendments to the Constitution constitutes an attack on the peace plan.
“Consideration of the draft of decentralization-related amendments to the Constitution in the Verkhovna Rada became a discussion on the main problem that worries all of us most of all – the issue of war and peace. This discussion turned out [to be] so hot that it demands a calm analysis…,” Poroshenko said in an address to the Ukrainians public which was posted on his website on July 21.
He said that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine had already sent the corresponding bill to the Constitutional Court, however some of the coalition’s factions did not support it.
“Some factions that I considered and still consider my partners suddenly attacked my peace plan. The plan that our European and American friends and partners had recognized as the option without alternatives to bring back the occupied areas in Donbas to Ukraine solely in a political and diplomatic way,” Poroshenko said.
