Opposition insists on early elections in Kyiv
The opposition has demanded that the Verkhovna Rada set a date for early elections for Kyiv City Council deputies and Kyiv's mayor.
"We are insisting that the Verkhovna Rada schedule early elections for Kyiv mayor and Kyiv City Council," Batkivschyna faction leader Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a meeting of the parliament's conciliatory council on Monday.
He said the opposition suspects that the Party of Regions wants to hold the mayoral election in Kyiv in August this year, at the time of the minimum turnout in Kyiv, and not to hold elections for Kyiv City Council.
"This council is illegitimate, and therefore the new mayor, who enters this council, will also be illegitimate," Yatseniuk said.
He said that the opposition had registered a draft resolution scheduling early elections in Kyiv for October 27 this year.
Yatseniuk also said the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the elections in Kyiv showed that it had become a "puppet court." He added that the Constitutional Court had over the past three years "totally usurped the powers of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine."