Group of MPs files complaint to overturn weekend lockdown

A group of 48 MPs has submitted a complaint to the
Constitutional Court to overturn the severe weekend lockdown, arguing that it has
no constitutional basis, the court’s website reported on Nov. 23. The complaint
will be presented in court by Oleksandr Dubinsky, an MP with The People’s
Servant party who built his career representing the interests of billionaire
Ihor Kolomoisky. The subject of the complaint won’t be the introduction of
quarantine restrictions on the whole, said MP Olha Sovhyria on her Facebook
page. “What is opposed are certain points of the government’s resolution that
impose a series of restrictions on the activity of enterprises on Saturday and
Sunday,” she wrote. Also opposed is the government’s restriction of planned
hospitalizations. Restricting constitutional rights requires the imposition of
martial law or a national emergency, according to the complaint, which is being
reviewed by the court.

Zenon Zawada: Overturning
the weekend lockdown won’t draw Ukraine any closer to Russia. But the measure
serves to fuel the Ukrainian public’s skepticism towards Western and global
institutions and their policies. Given that the pro-Western MPs would never
submit such a complaint, it’s possible that entrepreneurs have recruited the
pro-Russian forces – themselves skeptical of Western/global institutions – to
pursue their agenda of overturning the weekend lockdown.