Rada manages to unblock signing of land reform

Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, did not
collect enough votes to support any of the 13 draft resolutions to cancel a
bill for land reform that was approved by MPs on Mar. 31,
Interfax-Ukraine reported on Apr. 13. With the draft resolutions rejected, the
bill has been submitted for the signature of the president, after which it will
become law.

Alexander Paraschiy: Drafting
resolutions to cancel an adopted bill is a tactic to postpone the
implementation of a law. In this case, the measures succeeded in delaying by
two weeks the bill’s ultimate adoption by parliament. The same tactic could be
applied to another IMF-required law, a banking resolution bill known as the
anti-Kolomoisky law.