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Viktor Yanukovych: In order for the authorities to be efficient, it is necessary for each of the branches to have an opportunity to execute its powers at a high level
05.09.2008, 14:19
Answering the media representatives' question concerning direction of the laws recently passed by Verkhovna Rada, the Party of Regions Leader Viktor Yanukovych mentioned:
"The alterations to the Constitution, which we are suggesting, envisage clear-cut partition of the branches of power and creation of balance between the branches of power. In order for the authorities to be efficient, it is necessary for each of the branches to have an opportunity to execute its powers at a high level. Therefore, the Cabinet of Ministers should also have the plenary powers which will enable it to implement at a high level everything awaited today by the Ukrainian people. And the President's commission should correspond to a status of the head of the state.
We have supported a parliamentary-presidential form of government, and we do not see another model. As for today's actions in Parliament, – they regulate the Constitution currently in effect by means of laws. Yet many laws have to be approved so that the current Constitution of Ukraine should become effective indeed. There are no mechanisms of its implementation without laws. And now the existent reaction to adopting respective laws is quite understandable. Nobody has been going to observe the Constitution currently in force. Nobody has thought of working under the legislation. Because it has become a habit that he who has more force is right. And we propose so that everyone, eventually, should learn to obey the laws, and foremost – the Constitution. So that the supremacy of right should always dominate at all levels – from ordinary citizens up to the President".
As for the possibility of balloting at the upcoming presidential elections Viktor Yanukovych noted: "You know how I treat this question. It is the party's decision. Much time has left until the elections. These decisions are made at a congress. My point of view is that I am doomed to pursue this path, but it will be decided, I emphasize, only by the congress". | |
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