Tuesday
18 november 2008
18:51
Ukraine is in for lengthy speaker-election saga and collapse of legislature – Kost Bondarenko
“We are in for a lengthy speaker-election saga, and those who voted to dismiss former Speaker Yatseniuk committed a glaring crime. Before firing Yatseniuk they should have reached an agreement on who the next speaker would be. Consequently, Verkhovna Rada is blocked for an indefinite time. There is no chance of electing a new speaker, at least in the nearest time. That is why we won’t have a speaker and, moreover, we’ll be faced with the collapse of VR,” director of the Horshenin think tank in Kyiv and political expert Kost Bondarenko told ZIK Nov. 18.This stalemate plays into the hands of the president and his office. “In this way they are demonstrating to Ukraine that there is only one legitimate branch of power – the president,” the expert believes.
Commenting on the proposal by the Party of Regions to empower vice speaker Oleksandr Lavrynovych to sign bills into laws, Bondarenko said,”It would be illegal because under the VR procedure only its speaker can sign newly approved laws.”
The Ukrainian parliament will function in the following way, Bondarenko says: lawmakers will show up for sessions, register and then go home because no bill can become law without the speaker’s signature on it.
Asked about what the incumbent will do in this situation, the expert responded: “The president apparently knew what he was doing when he fired Yatseniuk.”
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