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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

PARLIAMENT GREETS CONSTITUTION while collecting signatures for amendments

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

On the eve of the Constitution’s second anniversary, the Ukrainian Parliament placed a bill on the session agenda providing for amendments stipulating not one but several Deputy Speakers.

Remarkably, quite a few Deputies, even among the amendment opponents, spoke about the need to make corrections and adjustments in the Fundamental Law, enacted “haphazardly, by an unstructured Parliament.” Rukh opposed amending Article 88 for fear that the process, once started, would become uncontrollable, developing according to laws of its own. The more so that Rukh’s opponents, Left Center and Hromada, continue to insist on cardinal changes in the constitutional text. Yuliya Tymoshenko, for one, told The Day that “the absence of impeachment and MP-recall procedures is abnormal. The Constitution has to be changed to bridge such gaps.”

This coming from the shadow Prime Minister does not sound too surprising, considering that even Mykhailo Brodsky, who stated previously that he became a Deputy and was released from jail only thanks to the Constitution, now demands immediate amendments on presidential authority. The Constitution seems to be being transformed into a weapon of political revenge.

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