Deputy head of the presidential secretariat Ihor Popov believes that the Constitutional Court of Ukraine will recognize a number of clauses of the law on amending the legislation on the presidential elections as unconstitutional and they will have to change the law during the election campaign.
Popov said this on Friday while commenting on the parliament’s overriding the veto on amendment to the law on the presidential elections, Yuschenko’s press service reported.
“I forecast that the law on the elections will be amended during the election campaign. Many lawyers and authors of the law agree that its certain clauses are questionable in terms of compliance with the Constitution,” Popov stressed. “And if the norms of the law are unconstitutional, we expect that after the Constitutional Court’s ruling, the law will have to be adjusted during the election campaign, which will be no good,” he said.
The head of state may appeal to the Constitutional Court only after the document takes effect, Popov said.
“I doubt that the president will sign this imperfect law and thus share political responsibility for the consequences of bringing this law into force. So, most likely, the head of state won’t sign the law,” Popov said.
