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What did 6 June 2019 change for Ukraine's institutions?
Summary
A retrospective on a day when parliament set an impeachment procedure and the Constitutional Court struck down anti-corruption provisions.
What did 6 June 2019 mean for the balance between Ukraine's institutions? Two decisions on that single day pointed in different directions.
The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on temporary investigative commissions and temporary special commissions of the Verkhovna Rada. The law regulates the procedure for impeaching the President of Ukraine, giving parliament a defined process for that mechanism.
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine, on the same day, ruled certain provisions unconstitutional in two areas. One concerned the e-declaration requirement as it applied to civic activists. The other, brought to the court by a plant owned by Kolomoisky, concerned the right of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) to seek to have corrupt deals declared invalid.
Taken together, the day's decisions bore on accountability at two levels: the procedure for removing a head of state, and the tools available to anti-corruption bodies and to public scrutiny. The ruling narrowed NABU's powers and the scope of e-declaration for activists, while the Rada's law set out how an impeachment would proceed.
