KIEV, May 16 – The Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's president to be elected during the early election on May 25 will serve a full five-year term in office.

"The president is being elected for a five-year term, whether the election is early or scheduled," according to the court resolution published on Friday.

The Constitutional Court said that clause 16 section 15 of the "Transition provisions" of the Ukrainian Constitution, whereby the next presidential election is due to be held in the last week of March 2015, was amended to allow a specific situation that arose following the changes to the Constitution regarding the legal regulation of a presidential election and the need to set the date for the next regular presidential election.