Of the European Party of Ukraine to the President of Ukraine
Concerning the Necessity of Vetoing of the Law of Ukraine “About Elections of Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Autonomous Republic of Crimea , Local Councils and Rural, Town, City Heads”
With regard to this, the European Party of Ukraine is applying to the President of Ukraine with the persevering request to veto this document and in such a way not to admit holding local elections in Ukraine under the antidemocratic scenario.
We consider that similarly to the situation with the changed Law “About Presidential Elections” (about what our party repeatedly underlined in the summer of the previous year), according to the settled European standards including Recommendations of the Code of Appropriate Practice in electoral issues being confirmed by the European Commission for Democracy through the Law (the Venice Commission) in October, 2002 the new Law on Elections of Local Governments cannot be signed by the President of Ukraine due to Ukraine’s declarations about itself as the country aspiring to develop under democratic standards of the leading countries of Europe.
Having investigated the basic articles of this Law, we are compelled to emphasize that this document contains many “problematic” positions which are directly controversial to the Constitution of Ukraine. We consider that signing of this Law becomes the first step to democracy curtailment in this state.
In this situation the chances of the opposition forces to participate directly in the government come to naught. As consequence Ukraine is standing before full usurpation of the power establishment of an authoritative mode in the state. Therefore the European Party of Ukraine sees a unique chance of the Ukrainian democracy preservation exclusively through vetoing of the Law mentioned above and its completion.
The Leader
The European Party of Ukraine
Mykola Katerynchuk