“No crisis” in Constitutional Court due to chief's removal – President’s envoy

The comment came as Venislavsky spoke with Ukraine 24 TV on August 15, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"There were many insinuations that the Constitutional Court had been paralyzed as political opponents accused the President of blocking its work because he removed Mr. Tupytsky... Today the Constitutional Court is working perfectly fine, there is no crisis in the Constitutional Court as Acting CCU Chairman Deputy Chairman Mr. Holovaty successfully manages CCU work. So there is no reason to say that the absence of Mr. Tupytsky has a negative impact on the activities of the Constitutional Court," Venislavsky said.

In this context, he reminded that in June-July, the CCU made what he said was a historic decision on the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language, as well as on the restoration of social guarantees for "Chornobyl victims," as well as a number of other important decisions.

Venislavsky also noted that the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court has sufficient legal grounds to declare legitimate the Decree of President Volodymyr Zelensky on canceling the appointment of Oleksandr Tupytsky as a CCU judge.

As reported earlier, on December 29, 2020, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree removing Tupytsky from the post of a CCU judge for a period of two months. On February 26, the President extended Tupytsky's suspension for another month.

On March 27, 2021, Zelensky revoked the decrees of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych on the appointment of Oleksandr Tupytsky and Oleksandr Kasminin as CCU judges. He noted that Yanukovych's decrees of 2013 on the appointment of Tupytsky and Kasminin had been revoked following the audit of the ex-president's decrees, run to implement the decision of the National Security and Defense Council.

Dismissed judges appealed the President's decree to the Supreme Court.

The Administrative Court of Cassation with the Supreme Court declared unlawful the Presidential Decree of March 27, 2021, which revoked Yanukovych’s decree to appoint Oleksandr Tupytsky a CCU judge.

Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, told Ukrinform an appeal would be filed against the ruling.

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