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Kyiv's impeachment law and court ruling, June 2019
Summary
A look back at legal and political developments in the days before 12 June 2019, from a new impeachment procedure to a Constitutional Court ruling.
What had Ukraine's legal landscape looked like by 12 June 2019? The days before that date brought two notable decisions in Kyiv, and a warning to Turkey from Washington.
On 6 June 2019, the Verkhovna Rada passed the law on temporary investigative commissions and temporary special commissions of the Verkhovna Rada. The law regulates the procedure for impeaching the President of Ukraine.
On the same day, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled certain provisions unconstitutional. They covered the e-declaration requirements applied to civic activists. In a case brought by a plant linked to Kolomoisky, the court also struck down the right of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) to seek to have corrupt deals declared invalid.
A wider diplomatic backdrop
Beyond Ukraine, on 7 June 2019 the United States notified Turkey that it would cancel Turkey's purchase of F-35 fighter jets if the government went ahead with buying Russia's S-400 missile defence system.
Together, these developments set the context for 12 June 2019: a new legal route for removing a president, a court decision touching on anti-corruption tools, and a sharpening dispute between Washington and Ankara over defence procurement.
