Nevertheless, the Council found a legal way to release her despite the martial law.
According to ZN.UA from several sources in In the office of the Prosecutor General today, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who was suspended by presidential decree, informed her deputy, Oleksiy Symonenko, who was appointed to perform her duties, that she considers her suspension to be illegal. She emphasized that she considers herself a full-fledged acting general prosecutor and is going to continue to perform her duties and receive a salary for this.
According to ZN.UA, today Iryna Venediktova was at the workplace, held a meeting with close employees of the prosecutor's office, to whom she demonstrated the same position.
At the same time, ZN.UA sources in the Verkhovna Rada reported that during the conciliation council of the heads of factions and groups, the head of the “Servant of the People” faction, David Arahamiya, explained to his colleagues the vision of the further algorithm of actions regarding the determination of the fate of Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov.
Regarding Iryna Venediktova David Arahamiya suggesteddeputies to collect signatures to express no confidence in her and vote for the relevant decision in the parliament. Nevertheless, as of 4:00 p.m. on July 18, none of the deputies turned to the office of the Verkhovna Rada to sign letters expressing no confidence in Venediktova.
As for the head of the SBU, Ivan Bakanov, according to the head of the monomajority, President Volodymyr Zelensky will personally submit a motion to the Verkhovna Rada for his dismissal and the appointment of a new head of the Security Service.
It should be noted that Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Legal Regime of Martial Law” indicates the inadmissibility of termination of the powers of state authorities in the conditions of martial law. In particular, the list of such includes the bodies of the prosecutor's office of Ukraine.
At the same time The Constitution of Ukraine is a law of direct effect and paragraph 25 of Article 85 gives the Verkhovna Rada the right to express no confidence in the Prosecutor General, which results in his resignation from positions It was according to this scheme that the human rights commissioner, whose position also falls under Article 10 of the law “On the legal regime of martial law”, was dismissed.
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Let us remind you that the previous evening, decrees were published on the president's website that removed SBU head Ivan Bakanov from his duties and removed Irina Venediktova from the post of prosecutor general.
In his evening address, the president stated that Bakanova was removed due to number of collaborators in the SBU, and accused Venediktova of delaying the announcement of the results of the competition for the post of head of the Security Service. According to Zelenskyi, both managers should undergo an inspection.
