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Zelensky signs decree suspending Tupytskyi from office
30.12.2020 09:36
Ukrinform
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree suspending Oleksandr Tupytskyi as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine for two months, the President's Office has reported.
According to the report, Zelensky said he had signed the decree "for the sake of restoring justice and resolving the constitutional crisis."
The decision was made after the President's Office received and processed a petition from the Prosecutor General's Office, signed by the acting prosecutor general, to suspend Constitutional Court judge Oleksandr Tupytskyi from office for two months.
Deputy Head of the President's Office Andriy Smyrnov said that the petition had been sent in accordance with Article 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which stipulates that officials appointed by the president of Ukraine are removed from office at the request of the prosecutor and such a decision is made by the president.