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The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday at a meeting with the president of Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk supported the decision to include in the agenda of the session and submit to the Constitutional Court of the presidential bill amending constitution. “For” vote 288 deputies, “against” – 57 “Glory to Ukraine bravo!” – Welcomed the results of the voting Verkhovna Rada Chairman Vladimir Groisman.
Donbass gets to the constitution
Changing the Constitution of Ukraine is one element of a package of measures to implement the Minsk Agreement, agreed in February, according to team president. Since March, Ukraine worked the constitutional commission, which was attended by MPs, representatives of regions, lawyers, representatives of international NGOs. However, representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic (DNI and LC) for work were not invited: Donetsk and Lugansk regions were politicians elected at the recent Ukrainian elections.
The first version was ready by July 1, then the president made it to the Verkhovna Rada. In the project reference to the special status of certain regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions was not in the text of the constitution itself. The fact that this special status will be determined by a special law, referred to in the transitional provisions of the accompanying Law on amendments. However, on the night of Thursday, President Poroshenko submitted to the parliament a new draft reform of the constitution, which proposes to consolidate the position of the special status of Donbass in the text of the basic law.
The deputies of the Ukrainian parliament reported that the appearance of a special status for the Donets Basin in the text the Constitution was the result of the meeting the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland with the leadership of Ukraine and legislators. Nuland arrived in Kiev on Wednesday and held a series of meetings, including Poroshenko. Earlier, Russia and the United States reached an agreement on the revitalization of the US to Ukraine and to hold regular consultations with Russian diplomats Nuland.
Deputy Leonid Yemets told the publication “The Mirror of the Week” that Nuland insisted that MPs supported “modified” version of the document, which corresponds to the Minsk Agreement and grants the Donbas “special status.” Yemets stressed that we are talking about the latest version of the president’s bill, in which the autonomy of Donbass spelled out in the Constitution itself.
«The country expects steps»
The inclusion the proposed bill in the parliamentary agenda made by deputies of the two factions within the ruling coalition. The leader of the Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko urged “not to yield to blackmail” and not to proceed with the document, which, according to him, is beneficial antipatriotichen Moscow and then dragged from the tribune of the national anthem. Opposed by the representative of the faction “Samoposch” Oleg Berezyuk.
Other speakers MPs acknowledged that the proposed text is not ideal, but we need to start working with him. This was stated by Maxim Bourbaki of the “Popular Front” Yury Boiko of the “opposition bloc».
«No special status here. The law granting special status is only valid for three years, and it can enter into force only after the nine conditions “, – he convinced the head of the Bloc colleagues Petro Poroshenko, Yuri Lutsenko. He urged colleagues to stop doing “hurray-patriotic show program” and “sell someone else’s blood and life other people’s children.” In his view, proposed at the last moment the president version of the constitution will allow for the peaceful reintegration of Ukraine.
The representative of the “Fatherland” Sergei Sobolev, it said: “The position is the same: do not listen to neither Moscow nor Brussels, nor Washington. We want peace from a position of strength, so we have decided to vote “for”. Parting words Premier Yatsenyuk was brief: he urged deputies to “act wisely” and adopt a constitution that would “create Ukraine as a strong power».
The last before the vote was made by the President, who pointed a deputy, he also knows patriotic poems, but The country expects no anthems and concrete steps today can make Ukrainian parliament – and then began to sing a hymn.
DNI and again against LC
In the case of a positive conclusion of the Constitutional Court of the deputies during the two sessions should support the document in the first reading (at least 226 votes) and second reading (minimum of 300 votes). Kiev hopes to approve the constitutional changes in the fall, reminds Interfax.
The negotiators from the LC and the DNI in the Minsk process Vladislav Dana and Dennis Pushilin criticized the constitutional amendments. They were not consistent with the self-proclaimed republics. In addition, the “special status” Donbass proposed to endow temporary, rather than permanent basis, as urged by the separatists. As noted by Dana, the amendments to the constitution “have nothing to do” with the Minsk process of the settlement.
According to him, the Ukrainian government left a loophole for the abolition of autonomy. “The Constitution does not provide for such thing as separate areas, that is in the administrative-territorial division of the country do not have such a unit. Even if the law on the special status would be accepted, the Constitutional Court will be able to appeal against it, “- he said. According to NTV, Pushilin said the Donetsk authorities will insist on the detailed wording of the special status for the breakaway region.
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