The 19th Extraordinary Congress of Judges of Ukraine elected all eight members of the High Council of Justice (HCJ) according to its quota in Kyiv on Thursday, the Council of Judges of Ukraine has said.
“The delegates of the 19th Extraordinary Congress of Judges of Ukraine elected all eight members of the High Council of Justice according to the quota from the judiciary,” it said on the website.
Judge of the Civil Cassation Court under the Supreme Court Serhiy Burlakov, who was elected during the second round of secret ballot, became the eighth member of the Supreme Court, the Council of Judges said.
“Thus, the 19th Extraordinary Congress of Judges of Ukraine elected all eight members of the High Council of Justice, which will allow the resumption of the work of the body of judicial self-government, unblock a number of processes in the judiciary related to the work of the courts and personnel issues, as well as continue the implementation of tasks related to judicial reform,” it said.
Thus, according to the quota of the judicial community, Judge of the Kharkiv Court of Appeal Alla Kotelevets, Judge of the Civil Cassation Court under the Supreme Court Hryhoriy Usyk, Judge of the Lviv District Administrative Court Oleksandr Sasevych, Judge of the Economic Court of Donetsk Region Yulia Bokova, Judge of the Northern Economic Court of Appeal Olha Popikova, Judge of the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal Tetiana Bondarenko, Judge of the Kherson District Administrative Court Olena Kovbiy, Judge of the Civil Cassation Court under the Supreme Court Serhiy Burlakov became members of the HCJ.
All newly elected members of the HCJ have taken the oath and will work in the body of the judiciary for the next four years.
“The election of candidates from the Congress of Judges of Ukraine will allow unblocking the work of the High Council of Justice and restore its institutional ability to make decisions, since with the newly elected members the quantitative composition of the HCJ will be 15 people, and this is the necessary quorum for the work of a collective body,” the Council of Judges said.
As reported, the G7 Ambassadors’ Support Group in Kyiv said it expects the appointment of eight new members of the High Council of Justice from the candidates vetted by the Ethics Council.
“G7 ambassadors look forward to the Congress of Judges appointing eight 8 new members of the High Council of Justice from the pool of candidates vetted by Ethics Council. Making the HCJ operational ASAP is an important step in Ukraine’s judicial reform, in line with its European path,” it said on Twitter on Tuesday.
The 19th Unscheduled Congress of Judges of Ukraine will be held on January 11-13.
The current president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and all his associates will be accountable before the law for making money on their own army during the war and for their tariff policy, Batkivschyna Party leader and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
“We’ll need to arrest anyone who has even taken a penny from the army,” Tymoshenko said during a rally in the town of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, announcing her first steps after winning the presidential election.
Tymoshenko referred to a recently published journalistic investigation, “which exposed the corruption of the president and his entourage on supplies from the aggressor country of unsuitable spare parts for Ukrainian military equipment at inflated prices,” the Batkivschyna official website said on Sunday.
Tymoshenko noted that the authorities would bear responsibility for the “tariff orgy” organized during his tenure. She said the illegal increase in gas prices for the population was another source of enrichment at the expense of people, and recalled that Kyiv’s District Administrative Court recently declared that the tariffs were set unreasonably.
The presidential candidate said her coming to power would put an end to the corrupt life of the oligarchic system, which only changed its face in every election. “We will not agree with them, because everyone who agrees hurts the future for Ukraine,” she said.
According to the politician, the first thing she will do as president is “fulfill the commitment that President Poroshenko took during his inauguration: “I will imprison three of his friends for corruption. ….But three friends is not enough,” he said.
According to her, the new government will remove the controlling agencies from the influence of the president in order to stop corruption and oligarchy in the country. According to Tymoshenko, a new Constitution will be adopted after holding a nationwide referendum.
