Andrii Portnov, who the Cabinet of Ministers recently appointed as the acting chairman of the State Property Fund, has announced that the Constitutional Court has refused to consider President Viktor Yuschenko's petition on the constitutionality of the Cabinet of Ministers' directive that replaced the leadership of the State Property Fund.
Portnov announced this to journalists in the parliament.
"A panel of Constitutional Court judges yesterday (May 15) rejected the [petition by] the President of Ukraine to open proceedings regarding the President's constitutional submission on the State Property Fund regarding personnel issues," Portnov said.
According to him, the judges refused to consider Yuschenko's petition because he has no right to fill such a petition.
According to Portnov, the Constitutional Court has explained to Yuschenko for the third time that the Constitutional Court has no jurisdiction over such issues.
"I think that you can look unprofessional but very scary when you look funny," Portnov said, commenting on Yuschenko's actions.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko presented Portnov to employees of the State Property Fund as the acting chairman of the fund on April 25, citing the Kyiv District Administrative Court's April 24 ruling that suspended Yuschenko's decrees that suspended the replacement of the State Property Fund's leadership.
However, the press service of the State Property Fund later said that Valentyna Semeniuk-Samsonenko remained the head of the fund.
An April 25 decree by Yuschenko again suspended the Cabinet of Ministers resolutions that removed Viktor Petrov, Svitlana Ledomska, Anatolii Hrynenko, and Oleksandr Potymkov from their posts as deputy chairpersons of the State Property Fund and the Cabinet of Ministers' resolutions that appointed Andrii Portnov as the first deputy chairman of the fund and Serhii Petrashko and Vadym Fesenko as deputy chairmen of the fund.
