The faction of the Party of Regions at the Verkhovna Rada may find enough votes to sack Interior Minister Yurii Lutsenko.
MP Nestor Shufrych of the faction declared this at a press conference.
"[Although the party respects the new wording of the law on the Cabinet of Ministers introducing that a submission from the prime minister is required to sack a minister at the parliament], if our demands [concerning a submission by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to sack Lutsenko] are ignored, we will use a decision by the Constitutional Court, which was endorsed in the spring of 2008, saying clearly that a decision by 226 MPs is enough for dismissal [of a minister]," he said.
He further said a deputy inquiry had been sent to the Prosecutor General's Office on Wednesday demanding investigation in the arrest and interrogation of Kharkiv City Council Secretary Hennadii Kernes. The inquiry also asked the Prosecutor General's Office investigate cases instituted by police against officials of local authorities.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Lutsenko assessed an initiative of the Party of Regions to dismiss him for forced brining of Kharkiv City Council Secretary Hennadii Kernes to an interrogation as another attempt of the party to defend one of its members.
The Party of Regions urged the Prosecutor-General's Office to file a criminal case against Interior Affairs Minister Lutsenko for the violations that the party believes were committed during the arrest of Kharkiv City Council Secretary Hennadii Kernes.
Police are going to question Kernes on a criminal case of organizing a murderous assault brought by the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office and on three more cases.
On December 6, 2007, the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against a Kharkiv resident on fact of organizing a murderous assault on Kernes.
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