| Loopy_1 | Date: Friday, 04.18.2014, 10:05 PM | Message # 1 |
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Group: Administrators
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| The vote to remove Yanukovych doesn’t seem to have followed constitutional procedures.
Under Articles 108-112 of Ukraine’s constitution, there are four ways a
sitting president may leave office between elections: resignation,
incapacitation, death, and impeachment. None of the first three
happened—early rumors to the contrary, Yanukovych has vehemently denied that he resigned—so that leaves the fourth, impeachment.
According to Article 111, impeachment must follow a specific set of
procedures: Parliament must vote to impeach and then convene a committee
to investigate. That committee must investigate and report back to
parliament, which must then vote to bring charges. A final vote to
convict may only come after receipt of a judgment from the
Constitutional Court that “the acts, of which the President of Ukraine
is accused, contain elements of treason or other crime.” And this final
vote would have taken the votes of at least 3/4 of all MPs (338),
whereas only 328 MPs simply voted for impeachment in a clearly
unconstitutional way.
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| Helen | Date: Wednesday, 04.23.2014, 5:35 PM | Message # 2 |
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Group: Guests
| 100% agree.
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