Leader of the Servant of the People party Oleksandr Korniyenko said that the statement about President Volodymyr Zelensky's intention to replace Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov with current First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk was just a rumor.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is ready to deepen the Ukrainian-British inter-parliamentary dialogue, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov has said.
Ambassadors of the G7 countries, during a meeting with Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov, discussed issues of a comprehensive judicial reform and strengthening of anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine.
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The Ambassadors of the G7 countries (the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan) in Ukraine during a meeting with Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov have elaborated on the reforms they expect to be implemented in Ukraine.
"In their meeting with Dmytro Razumkov, G7 Ambassadors were encouraged by the Verkhovna Rada plans to support reform this year. They emphasised the importance of comprehensive judicial reform including High Council of Justice, as essential to Ukraine development," the UK Presidency of the G7 Ambassadors' Support Group in Kyiv said on Twitter on February 5, 2021.
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Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Oleksandr Tupytsky, has challenged in the Supreme Court the decree issued by President Volodymyr Zelensky on own dismissal from office.
That's according to the Supreme Court's press service.
"On February 1, the Administrative Court of Cassation that is part of the Supreme Court received a claim where the plaintiff appeals against the Decree of the President of Ukraine of December 29, 2020, No. 607/2020 'On the dismissal of a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine', from the moment of its adoption," the statement says.
Judging by the data published on the Sudova Vlada web portal, the plaintiff is CCU chief Judge Oleksandr Tupytsky, while President Volodymyr Zelensky is the defendant.
The request concerns two draft laws on the CCU / Photo from UNIAN, by Viacheslav Ratynsky
Chairperson of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov has requested the Venice Commission's opinion on the draft Law "On Constitutional Procedure" and on the draft Law "On the Procedure for Consideration of Cases and Execution of Decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine" (CCU).
The commission announced this on its website on January 28.
The request was stipulated in a letter dated January 26, 2021, it said.
This request is a follow-up to the recommendations of the Commission expressed in its two urgent opinions of December 2020 on the legislative situation regarding anti-corruption mechanisms and the reform of the Constitutional Court following judgment No.13-r/2020 of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine of October 27, 2020, requested by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Rada's leadership continues to suppress cases of button-pushing - Razumkov 2 min read
The number of cases of non-personal voting (the so-called button-pushing) in the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation has decreased, but they still exist and the parliament leadership is working to eradicate this practice, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov said.
"We arranged it so that button-pushing became an exceptional phenomenon within the walls of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation. This applies to all parliamentary factions and groups, this is almost nonexistent, but we are not satisfied with 'almost'," Razumkov said at a meeting of the conciliatory council of leaders of parliamentary factions and groups on Monday.
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