The decision by the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine (HACU) to deprive MP Pavlo Baloha of his powers is aimed at forcing him to join the parliamentary majority, the United Center Party has reported.

"The decision is unlawful and obviously politically biased, and it was made under some pressure," a leader of the United Center Party, Vadym Karasiov, told Interfax-Ukraine.

He said this decision is based on the fact that "there is pressure from pro-government forces on those who were elected MPs in single-seat constituencies."

"Cynical, open and unlawful pressure is being exerted on independent single-seat MPs in order to deprive them of independence in their actions in parliament in the interests of their voters and force them to work not under the mandate of their voters, but on the instructions of pro-government forces," he said.

Karasiov said that the United Center Party had already appealed to the opposition on this occasion.

"This is an unprecedented case, as people's deputies are being deprived of their powers by a decision of the court, rather than the Central Election Commission, and this could happen to anyone," he said.

He said that United Center lawyers would study the decision with regard to challenging it.

As reported, the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on Friday recognized as inaccurate the results of the election of people's deputies in single-seat constituency No. 11 (Vinnytsia region) and single-seat constituency No. 71 (Zakarpattia region), where Oleksandr Dombrovsky and Baloha, respectively, were declared winners of the 2012 parliamentary election in Ukraine and obliged the CEC to hold repeat elections in these constituencies.