Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at a meeting on Thursday supported the draft resolution No. 5157 by 230 votes to dismiss 412 judges from office.
"Our faction decided to support the draft regulation and to allow nearly five hundred judges to exercise their right to resign," the author of the draft resolution from Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy and Justice Ruslan Kniazevych said during discussion of the relevant draft resolution.
The decree provides termination of one of judges due to their reaching the age of 65, two judges - for failure to fulfill their duties for health reasons, and six - in connection with the submission of resignation on their own. The remaining 403 judges were dismissed in connection with their submission of resignation. The list includes nine judges of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, six judges of the Supreme Administrative Court, 18 judges of the Supreme Economic Court and eight judges of the Supreme Special Court on reviewing civil and criminal cases.
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