Ukraine leader appeals Cabinet law in Constitutional Court
The law allowing the parliamentary majority to nominate the prime minister and Cabinet ministers came into force February 2 after being published in a parliamentary and government bulletins.
The parliamentary speaker, Oleksandr Moroz, signed the law. Under Ukrainian law, the parliamentary speaker can sign a bill, approved by two-thirds of the votes in parliament, into law if the president fails to do so within a month.
Yushchenko first vetoed the bill January 12, but the Supreme Rada overrode the veto with 366 votes when a former opposition bloc joined the parliamentary majority that supports the largely pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Parliament also rejected all presidential amendments to the bill.
On January 18, Yushchenko again refused to sign the law, saying the Supreme Rada had made new changes to the document. The president described the law as giving the government " a false passport."
Yushchenko repeatedly said the provisions
