07 July 2012, 17:31
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deems it logical that the Head of the Parliament should be elected by ballot voting.
V. Lytvyn said this on Saturday, answering the journalists? questions at press-conference in Zhytomyr.
Under the current Rules of Procedure, said the Head of the Parliament, the decision on election of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada is taken by the majority of votes of people?s deputies, but not less than 300 people?s deputies should take the ballots, "so that there is no temptation to elect or change the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada every day."
He reminded that the same procedure applies to election of the Head and the supervisors of the Counting Chamber and the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
According to V. Lytvyn, if initiators of this law wanted to introduce such norm for the next composition of the Parliament, they should have indicated in the final provisions that the norm shall come into force from the moment the Verkhovna Rada of the new convocation starts its work.
V. Lytvyn noted also that he considered the adoption of the "language" law and of the law on changes in the procedure of election of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "to be consistent steps one after another."
V. Lytvyn reminded that a group of people?s deputies addressed the Constitutional Court for clarification whether the provisions of the current Rules of Procedure concerning the procedure of election of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada are constitutional. On July 6, the Constitutional Court sent a letter to the Parliament with a request to state the stand of the Verkhovna Rada in regard to this issue. "The Constitutional Court has never shown such promptitude before," he noted.