Batkivschyna Appeals To Supreme Administrative Court Against Decision To …
The Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party has filed an appeal with the Supreme Administrative Court against the Kyiv Administrative Appeal Court’s decision that upheld the legality of the Central Electoral Commission’s refusal to register former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former interior affairs minister Yurii Lutsenko as the party’s parliamentary candidates in the multi-mandate constituency.
A source within the election headquarters of the united opposition disclosed this to Ukrainian News.
The source said that the Supreme Administrative Court should schedule consideration of the appeal soon and consider it within two days.
The source did not rule out the possibility of scheduling consideration of the case for August 14.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Kyiv Administrative Appeal Court ruled on August 11 that the Central Electoral Commission’s resolution No. 216 of August 8 in which it refused to register Tymoshenko and Lutsenko as parliamentary candidates was legal.
On August 8, the Central Electoral Commission adopted a separate resolution in which it refused to register them as parliamentary candidates on the basis of Article 4 of the law “On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine,” which stipulates that a citizen who has been convicted of committing a premeditated crime cannot be nominated or elected as a parliamentary deputy if the conviction has not been canceled or withdrawn in accordance with the procedures established by law.
The plaintiff said it filed the court appeal because the provisions of Article 9 of the law “On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine” contradict Article 76 of the Constitution, which stipulates that a citizen whose conviction has not been withdrawn or canceled cannot be elected into the parliament.
Tymoshenko and Lutsenko were sentenced to 7 and 4 years in prison for abuse of power.