Constitutional Court receives appeal regarding restriction of citizens' right to apply to court on interpretation of Constitution – MP Sovhyria

KYIV. Sept 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has received an appeal regarding the narrowing of the right of citizens to appeal on the official interpretation of certain provisions of the Constitution in connection with the adoption of amendments to the Basic Law in terms of justice, representative of the Verkhovna Rada in the Constitutional Court Olha Sovhyria (Servant of the People faction) said.

"The Constitutional Court received a constitutional appeal from citizen I. Fedorchenko regarding the official interpretation of certain provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine as amended by the law ‘On amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine (regarding justice)’ dated June 2, 2016. The appeal states that with the adoption of these amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 8, 64 and 157 of the Constitution of Ukraine were violated, since the right of citizens to appeal to the Constitutional Court on issues of official interpretation of the Constitution of Ukraine was reduced," Sovhyria wrote on her Telegram channel on Wednesday.

She also noted that the appeal had been registered and distributed to the reporting judge pursuant to the decision of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal of February 25, 2021 in case 320/3464/20, and the court is deciding the issue of opening constitutional proceedings.

"However, according to the current Constitution of Ukraine, citizens are subjects of the right to appeal to the Constitutional Court only with constitutional complaints, the subject of which may be a dispute about the constitutionality of a law, and not an interpretation of the Constitution of Ukraine," the representative of the Rada to the Constitutional Court added.

Consequently, Sovhyria stressed that the appeal had been filed by an inappropriate subject and there had been no grounds for opening proceedings.