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Bne IntelliNews: Ukraine faces a constitutional crisis over the sacking of Constitutional Court judges bill

By Bne Intellinews.

Published Nov. 3, 2020 at 2:35 am

A smoke bomb thrown by protesters goes off near the Constitutional Court in Kyiv on Oct. 30, 2020. Several hundred people protested the court, demanding that its judges resign, following their controversial ruling on the anti-graft laws.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has submitted a bill to dismiss all 15 judges of the Constitutional Court that will plunge Ukraine into a major constitutional crisis. The bill follows a controversial decision by the court to strike down key anti-corruption laws that were put in place at the insistence of Ukraine’s main donors, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF).