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  5. Some issues of early termination of powers of people’s deputies of Ukraine

Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 200–208.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-200-208

Batanova N. M.
Some issues of early termination of powers of people’s deputies of Ukraine

The article deals with the problems of constitutional regulation of the institute of early termination of powers of people’s deputies of Ukraine in the context of foreign experience. The author examines the national and foreign experience of establishing the grounds for constitutional and legal responsibility of people’s deputies at the constitutional and legislative levels and the problems of its implementation in practice. In particular, early termination of the powers of a deputy for failure to comply with the requirements regarding the incompatibility of the deputy’s mandate with other activities; early termination of the powers of a deputy in case of entry into force of a guilty verdict against him/her; early termination of his/her powers as a result of failure to join the deputy’s faction of a political party (electoral bloc of political parties) or resignation from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The article analyzes the draft law initiatives to supplement Part 2 of Art. 81 of the Constitution of Ukraine with the following grounds for early termination of powers of a people’s deputy of Ukraine: a court determination of the fact of his/her non-personal voting in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, as well as his/her absence without valid reasons at one third of the plenary meetings of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and/or meetings of the committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of which he/she is a member during one regular session and improvement of the mechanism of early termination of powers of people’s deputy of Ukraine. The author concludes that the introduction and application of criminal responsibility measures for improper performance of duties by people’s deputies of Ukraine, including in the form of absentee voting, should not replace or exclude their constitutional and legal responsibility, and the main functional purpose is a negative assessment of illegal actions of the authorities. The author emphasizes that improvement of the institution of constitutional and legal responsibility of people’s deputies of Ukraine, procedural regulation of its grounds and sanctions, primarily early termination of their powers, remains a topical issue of constitutional theory and practice. At present, the grounds for early termination of powers of people’s deputies of Ukraine are not clearly defined in the legislation of Ukraine. However, this type of constitutional and legal responsibility is an effective guarantee of the constitutional order, representative democracy and functioning of parliamentarism.

Key words: early termination of powers, constitutional and legal responsibility, people’s deputy of Ukraine, parliament, parliamentarism, constitutional delict, constitutional sanctions, legal responsibility, mechanism of responsibility.

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Nataliya Mykolaivna Batanova,
Senior Researcher of the Department of Interdisciplinary and Comparative Legal Studies of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the NAS of Ukraine, Candidate of Law
ORCID: 0000-0003-1828-6708

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