MP and leader of the Front for Change Party Arseniy Yatseniuk has appealed to the High Administrative Court of Ukraine requesting that it declare illegal the actions of the Verkhovna Rada in approving the law on pension reform, the press service of the party has reported.
The appeal reads that 248 MPs adopted the law on pension reform during the eighth session on July 8, 2011. However, the law was reconsidered at the ninth session of the parliament on September 6. After that the parliament chairman signed the law and urgently submitted it to president of Ukraine, who signed the law on September 10. The reconsideration of the law was in violation of the constitution, the laws of Ukraine and in gross violation of legal procedures, the party said.
"According to the third part of Article 128, after the adoption of the law as a whole, the introduction of any amendments to its text is permitted only by the Verkhovna Rada Chairman. Article 131 of the law defines the procedure for the resolution of conflicts and inaccuracies in the adopted law. But an analysis of the transcript of the debate and adoption of the law from September 6 indicates that the inclusion of substantial amendments instead of the resolution of conflicts and inaccuracies in the adopted law was done during the plenary sitting. At the same time, including amendments in the adopted law is forbidden according to the law. That means the statements of Articles 128 and 131 have been affected," the text reads.
MP thinks that Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has violated the principle of the supremacy of law.
"Volodymyr Lytvyn, willfully interpreting the statements of Article 131, which stipulates the procedure for the resolution of conflicts, introduced to the Verkhovna Rada a law adopted in July, 2011 with substantial amendments," the text reports.
Yatseniuk demands that the actions of the parliament during the reconsideration of the law on pension reform be declared illegal.
The Verkhovna Rada failed to support an amendment proposed by Yatseniuk on September 6, which would have increased payments for 10 million pensioners by UAH 334 per month.
