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© Constitutional Court of Ukraine/ official website The Committee on Legal Policy will announce a fresh contest for the position of a jurist at the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
During its Wednesday, October 8, plenary meeting, the Ukrainian Parliament did not succeed in the balloting for the designation of recent justices to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Not a single one of the quartet of hopefuls attained the essential tally of votes — 226.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, urged the Committee on Legal Policy to declare a novel competitive procedure for the role of a judge in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a Deputy representing the “Holos” faction, conveyed that 224 MPs cast their votes for Zakhar Tropin, the nominee put forth by the “Servant of the People” faction and the Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Representation at the Ministry of Justice. Other aspirants likewise failed to secure the required number of votes: 93 parliamentarians supported Oksana Klymenko, the leading academic advisor in the legislative drafting sector concerning legal policy matters within the Research Service of the Verkhovna Rada, 84 deputies backed Taras Tsymbalist, a prosecutor from the Prosecutor General's Office, and 179 deputies voted for Yulia Kyrychenko, a board member of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms and an advisor to the Verkhovna Rada Chairman.
As a component of European integration, Ukraine has pledged to overhaul the Constitutional Court, notably by guaranteeing that judges are selected via a competitive mechanism. Nevertheless, the selection endeavor is markedly sluggish . The Court’s barely sufficient size renders it precarious and susceptible to external sway. Before the appointment of Oleksandr Vodiannikov as a justice, the Constitutional Court was unable to perform its functions due to the absence of the required quorum.
For deeper insight into the issue surrounding the designation of Constitutional Court judges, peruse Volodymyr Kim’s piece titled “The Constitutional Court on the Hook, or Why the Uninterrupted Operation of the Constitutional Court Matters.”
