Constitutional Court not considering ‘dictatorial’ law on referendum for a year already

The activists of the Coalition “For Fair Referendum” require immediate checking of the law on its constitutionality or replacing the judges.

As journalist Natalia Sokolenko posted on the website of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms, December 1, 2014, the group of newly elected MPs and public activists submitted the law on national referendum for consideration of the Constitutional Court judges.

A year has passed, but the court has not ruled whether the law complies with the Constitution of Ukraine. At the same time, Sokolenko notes, it took just a week for the Constitutional Court to consider the bill on constitutional amendments regarding decentralization, submitted by President Poroshenko.

The law on referendum was actually adopted to meet the needs of Victor Yanukovych to organize the referendum on any issue.

“According to this law, nobody can organize a referendum without the permission of the President. The law was passed on November 6, 2012, when there were 50 MPs in the session hall,” the journalist writes.

Sokolenko wonders what are the reasons for such behavior of the Constitutional Court – whether it is agreement with the new government or the fact that eight judges are to be lustrated and “want to do nothing.”

The activists of the Coalition “For Fair Referendum” require immediate checking of the law on its constitutionality or replacing the judges.