Stefanchuk can’t find any way to get MPs from the banned HLE to get rid of mandates
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk explained why people’s deputies elected from the banned “Opposition platform – For life”, do not deprive of mandates. This is stated in the message of Radio Liberty, Argument writes.
“This is the right idea (a petition to remove the mandate of all deputies from the Opposition Platform for Life in the Verkhovna Rada – ed.), but we need to find its legislative embodiment. If all this is done simply indiscriminately, then it will smack of the revolution of 1917 or what Russia is doing now in Ukraine. We must demonstrate to the whole world the civility of our choice, but at the same time persistently look for the option of stopping (deputy powers – ed.). There are seven grounds under the Constitution, let's look for options on those seven grounds,” he said in an interview with Public on the air of the national telethon.
Why can't Stefanchuk be deprived of HLE mandates in any way?
According to the Constitution, the powers of a People's Deputy of Ukraine are terminated early in the event:
- submission of his personal statement of resignation;
- entry into legal force of a guilty verdict;
- recognition of a deputy as incapacitated or missing;
- termination of his citizenship;
- violation of the requirements for incompatibility of a deputy mandate with other types of activity;
- non-entry of a deputy elected from a political party into the deputy faction of this political party or withdrawal of a deputy from the faction;
- his death.
People's Deputy from the European Solidarity faction Oleksiy Goncharenko on November 16 registered a petition on the President's website regarding the deprivation of MPs representing the Opposition Platform for Life of their mandates. This petition received the necessary 25,000 votes for consideration.
On September 15, the Security Service of Ukraine reported that the Administrative Court of Cassation as part of the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the Opposition Platform – For Life (OPZZH) party and finally banned it activity.
The decision to ban the functioning of the Opposition Platform for Life was made on the basis of a presidential decree and a decision of the National Security and Defense Council.
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