Political protests: authorities play for time

UKRAINE - In Brief 20 Oct 2017 by Dmytro Boyarchuk
My personal opinion – healthcare reform was a sacrifice to prevent revision of political rules of the game. When reformers had been celebrating approval of healthcare legislation, the authorities tried to derail process of implementing political demands. Firstly, the draft law, which cancels MPs immunity, was submitted to the Constitutional Court for expertise. This step looks fine unless the fact that Constitutional Court is poorly functional due to lack of judges: it has 13 judges out of 18 (12 needed for quorum) and it will be easy to delay the process infinitely. Secondly, parliament failed to approve new election law (with open lists) – no tricks, the authorities put the bill on agenda in line with demand of protesters but MPs did not vote. And finally, on the issue of anti-corruption court, leaders of the protests said that message from Poroshenko was – "not in this life"! Well, let’s see how the situation will unfold.

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