Petro Poroshenko Will Give the Presidency Back to Viktor Yanukovych
Petro Poroshenko wants to restore the title of Ukraine’s President for Viktor Yanukovych applying to the Constitutional Court.
We often compare Petro Poroshenko to Viktor Yanukovych. However, saying that Petro Poroshenko is nothing but a doppelganger of Viktor Yanukovych we hardly realize that it’s literally true.
I think you’ll be rather surprised to hear what I’m about to say. But you should know that Petro Poroshenko is fighting to get the Title of President back to Viktor Yanukovych.
In order to have it done, Petro Poroshenko filed a correspondent application to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and officially registered it.
Petro Poroshenko is sure that the Verkhovna Rada abused its power having adopted an act ‘On Deprivation of Viktor F. Yanukovych of the Title of Ukraine’s President’.
The act No. 144-VIII was signed by Petro Poroshenko only on June 17, 2015 that is 5 months after its adoption.
As it turned out, right after signing the act he applied to the Constitutional Court on June 19, 2015 so that it examined the constitutionality of the act ‘On Deprivation of Viktor F. Yanukovych of the Title of Ukraine’s President’.
It was stated in Mr. Poroshenko’s application to the court that the deprivation of Yanukovych of the title of Ukraine’s President had been unconstitutional and hadn’t complied with article 6, part 2; article 8, part 2; article 19, part 2; article 85, and article 105, part 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
He reasoned his application referring to the Constitution of Ukraine according to which the title of President could be deprived based on the impeachment procedure only. And such a procedure didn’t actually take place.
Petro Poroshenko’s official application to the Constitutional Court was registered and placed on the official website of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
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On June 16, 2015 Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, signed the evidence report on Yuriy Baulin, Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, and forwarded it to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine to raise suspicions against Mr. Baulin of having committed the crime of power abuse as defined in article 364; part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and, by so doing, of having brought in a serious offence like usurpation of power by Viktor Yanukovych. Such an act was done by Valenty Nalyvaychenko immediately prior to Poroshenko’s application to the Constitutional Court just in order to prevent any release of such information to the public.
On July 13, 2016 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine decided (Decision No. 58-y/2016 (Case No.1-29 / 2016)) to examine the case of the constitutional application of Petro Poroshenko by means of a written hearing.
The hearing took place in October 2016 and based on its results the Constitutional Court of Ukraine preceded to the closed-door plenary session for further deliberations and adoption of a ruling.
Why did President Poroshenko need Viktor Yanukovych to have his title of President back?
The answer is rather cynical and prosaic.
Taking into consideration the increasing political competition, Petro Poroshenko is afraid to be deprived of the presidential title in the same way as Viktor Yanukovych was that is with no impeachment procedure applied.
There is needed constitutional majority of 300 votes For impeachment while the decision similar to the act ‘On Deprivation of Viktor F. Yanukovych of the Title of Ukraine’s President’ can be made by simple majority. Petro Poroshenko fears that at some point he won’t be able to have control over that majority. Such a point, for instance, may take place in case of early parliamentary elections.
To be on the safe side and cover his own presidential ass, Petro Poroshenko is quite ready to even resume presidential right for the ass of Viktor Yanukovych.
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