Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan?
<p>Last Sunday’s parliamentary elections resulted in a composition of the Verkhovna Rada – the Ukrainian parliament – which guarantees a solid majority to the President’s party. The circumstances leading to the prematurely held elections, however, were more than doubtful fr...
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description | <p>Last Sunday’s parliamentary elections resulted in a composition of the Verkhovna Rada – the Ukrainian parliament – which guarantees a solid majority to the President’s party. The circumstances leading to the prematurely held elections, however, were more than doubtful from a constitutional law perspective. The Constitutional Court (CC) confirmed the dissolution of Ukraine’s parliament as constitutional in a controversial decision which strengthens the position of the president and thereby ignores the intentions and objectives of the Maidan revolution of 2014.</p>
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spelling | doaj.art-bc4c275898994207ab7ea91275995dda2022-12-22T00:44:01ZdeuMax Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbHVerfassungsblog2366-70442366-7044Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan?Matthias Hartwig<p>Last Sunday’s parliamentary elections resulted in a composition of the Verkhovna Rada – the Ukrainian parliament – which guarantees a solid majority to the President’s party. The circumstances leading to the prematurely held elections, however, were more than doubtful from a constitutional law perspective. The Constitutional Court (CC) confirmed the dissolution of Ukraine’s parliament as constitutional in a controversial decision which strengthens the position of the president and thereby ignores the intentions and objectives of the Maidan revolution of 2014.</p> https://verfassungsblog.de/strengthening-the-president-betraying-maidan/Constitutional Court, Dissolution of Parliament, parliamentary elections |
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title | Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan? |
title_full | Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan? |
title_fullStr | Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan? |
title_full_unstemmed | Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan? |
title_short | Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan? |
title_sort | strengthening the president betraying maidan |
topic | Constitutional Court, Dissolution of Parliament, parliamentary elections |
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