Poroshenko Registers Bill At Rada To Introduce Amendments To Constitution In Part Of Deputy Immunity

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has registered a bill at the Verkhovna Rada to introduce amendments to the Constitution in the part of immunity of MPs.

Bill No.7203 was registered on Tuesday, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

According to the title of the bill, it envisages amendments to Article 80 of the Constitution.

The text of the bill is not available on the website of the Parliament.

Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy has urged the Rada's Committee on Legal Policy and Justice to consider immediately bills No.6773 by parliamentary members and No.7203 by President Petro Poroshenko, both suggesting revoking the parliamentary immunity.

Parubiy said this at the Parliamentary meeting.

Parubiy promised that as soon as the relevant committee provides its judgment on the bills they will be bought to the Rada.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on September 7, President Poroshenko said in his annual state of the nation address at the Verkhovna Rada he would suggest the Parliament cancelling parliamentary immunity from January 1, 2020.

In February 2015, the Verkhovna Rada tabled the bill No. 1776 on abolition of parliamentary immunity and immunity of judges for consideration by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

On July 10, 2017, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy said that the bill could not be tabled for consideration as there was a legal collision as the issue of judges immunity had then already been tackled in the course of the judicial reform.