Several hundred protesters rallied next to the Constitutional Court’s headquarters in central Kyiv on the morning of Oct. 30 to demand that the court’s 15 judges resign.
The mass protest followed a number of highly controversial rulings that undermine the anti-corruption infrastructure in Ukraine. In the latest and the most scandalous of them, the Constitutional Court on Oct. 27 effectively destroyed Ukraine’s entire asset declaration system for state officials, eliminating a crucial pillar of the country’s anti-corruption system.
It prompted President Volodymyr Zelensky to call an urgent meeting of the National Defense and Security Council on Oct. 29. As a result of the meeting, the government ordered to restart the declarations registry, and Zelensky suggested a draft bill that would cancel the Constitutional Court’s ruling and fire all of its judges.
While some activists welcomed the president’s efforts, others pointed out that they appear to be illegal and may throw the country into a constitutional crisis.
While the protesters who came to the Constitutional Court on Oct. 30 also demanded that the judges of the Constitutional Court are fired or resign, roughly half of the demonstrated also protested the leadership of Zelensky.
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