| The Ukrainian parliament is waiting for the president's decision Starting today, the Ukrainian constitution allows President Viktor Yushchenko to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada, since a new government has not been formed in 60 days since the resignation of Yuri Yekhanurov’s cabinet. Parliamentarians from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) yesterday tried to give the president additional grounds for dispersing the Rada by writing statements about their readiness to resign as parliamentarians.
But according to the constitution, the refusal of mandates must be confirmed by a majority vote in the Rada, that is, by an anti-crisis coalition consisting of the Party of Regions, the Socialist Party and the Communist Party. And these forces do not need the dissolution of the Rada. Representatives of the coalition are also putting pressure on the president, threatening to independently resolve the issue of appointing a prime minister if Yushchenko does not submit the candidacy of the leader of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, for parliamentary approval by the due date (before August 1).
BYuT called on deputies from the pro-presidential “Our Ukraine” to part with their mandates. However, the “our Ukrainian” acting Prime Minister Yekhanurov ridiculed this initiative: “I don’t want to join unrealistic things.” An influential ally of Yushchenko, the former head of the Security Council, and now the head of the Rada Committee on Finance and Banking, Petro Poroshenko explained that the president “has other ways to determine the fate of parliament.” Our Ukraine MP Roman Zvarych confirmed that his colleagues do not support BYuT’s radical calls for the dissolution of parliament.
Just in case, the leader of the Communist Party Pyotr Symonenko was the author of the resolution adopted yesterday by the Rada on convening its special meeting in the event of the dissolution of parliament at the will of the president. “Deputies must think about how to say goodbye to each other, how to pack up their things. Once we get together, it will be fun,” explained Mr. Simonenko.
BYuT's fury fell yesterday on the Speaker of the Rada, head of the Socialist Party, Alexander Moroz, whom the bloc considers “a traitor who destroyed the “orange” coalition.” BYuT deputy Oleg Lyashko announced that he received an audio recording from a “reliable person in the special services”, from which it follows that “Moroz became speaker for a bribe of $300 million.” On this tape, Rada deputy “regional” Andrei Klyuev allegedly discusses in Moscow with a certain Ruben the details of the bribery of Moroz and the impeachment of President Yushchenko. To this, Yanukovych noted that “such unfounded statements are not a sensation for Ukraine, this is the style of a well-known party and its leader.”
The head of the Ukraine department at the Institute of CIS Countries, Kirill Frolov, told Vremya Novostei that “President Yushchenko would have the right to dissolve the Rada if it had not formed either a majority coalition or a government.” According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the interlocutor of VN said, “the president cannot fail to submit for approval by the Rada the candidacy of the prime minister proposed by the anti-crisis coalition.” “Speaker Moroz warned Yushchenko about possible impeachment if the president dared to dissolve parliament. But the “orange” government is mobilizing all resources so as not to concede on any point, so the situation in Ukraine is approaching the peak of confrontation,” Mr. Frolov concluded. Alexander SAMOKHOTKIN |
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