KYIV – Ukraine entered the new year with a mounting constitutional crisis that will further test President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s resolve to reform a system he promised “to break” during his election campaign.
Five days into 2021, the Constitutional Court issued a statement that said a presidential decree to suspend the court’s chief, Oleksandr Tupytskyi, “may lead to blocking the work” of the court and make it “impossible” to exercise “constitutional control in order to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution of Ukraine, assertion of human rights and freedom.”