The BBP found an excuse for why they failed to impose sanctions against Yanukovych’s entourage
People's deputies refused to adopt the draft resolution “On measures to protect national interests, national security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and combating terrorist activities” due to the legal imperfections of the document.
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This version of what happened was presented to journalists by the first deputy chairman of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, Igor Kononenko, the Ukrinform agency reports.
“This ruling is negative; it will give those involved in the ruling a strong position in the European Court of Human Rights and will give them the opportunity to win cases there,” he said.
Kononenko noted that, on the one hand, the resolution is “declarative” - it is difficult to use, although politically it is “very important.”
As PolitNavigator previously reported, today MPs rejected the draft resolution "On measures to protect national interests, national security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and combat terrorist activity." Only 202 members of parliament supported the resolution out of the minimum required 226 votes. MPs also twice rejected the draft resolution, so it is considered rejected.
According to the results of the roll-call vote, only 65 deputies from the BPP voted for the draft resolution, the same number from the Popular Front, 24 non-factional, 21 from Samopomich, 10 from Batkivshchyna, 17 from the Radical Party. Not a single vote was given by the “Opposition Bloc”, the groups “Vidrodzhennya” and “Will of the People”.
According to the draft resolution, the sanctions list included 21 people, headed by ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. At the same time, people's deputy and ex-judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Vasily Nimchenko drew attention to the fact that the imposition of sanctions on Ukrainian citizens is contrary to Ukrainian legislation.
The BBP has found an excuse for why it failed to impose sanctions against Yanukovych's entourage.