17:12 20.10.2017

Poroshenko asking Constitutional Court to consider bills quickly on MPs immunity abolition

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Poroshenko asking Constitutional Court to consider bills quickly on MPs immunity abolition

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has urged the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to consider the constitutionality of bills on the abolition of people's deputies immunity from prosecution, so that parliament could consider them at this session.

"They (lawmakers) have made a responsible political step to cancel their main privilege, I really appreciate it, and now on behalf of the absolute majority of Ukrainians, on behalf of the Ukrainian people, I am asking the Constitutional Court to consider this issue as soon as possible, to clear the path for changing the Constitution regarding parliamentary immunity, to return the bills to the parliament and enable it to vote for them in the first reading at this session," he said during a visit to the 10th mobile border detachment of the State Border Service of Ukraine in Bortnychi in Kyiv on Friday.

As reported, on October 19, the Verkhovna Rada included in the agenda and sent to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine presidential and deputy bills on the abolition of parliamentarians' immunity.

Poroshenko expects that the Verkhovna Rada will finally abolish the immunity of deputies during the next session. "I think that at the next session the Verkhovna Rada will not lose courage and give 300 votes for the final and irrevocable solution to this problem," the president wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.

The abolishment of lawmakers' immunity from prosecution is among the demands of a rally which is currently taking place outside the parliamentary building in Kyiv.

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