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Prez praying for favorable court ruling
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KIEV, April 1 – President Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday he “wants very much” for the Constitutional Court to rule that the governing coalition is legal, and added he will “pray to God” to secure the positive ruling.

Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday that each hesitating judge has been secretly offered $1 million to uphold the pro-coalition ruling, a charge that Yanukovych has denied.

“I want to tell you honestly from this tribune, and to all Ukrainian people: I want very much the Constitutional Court to have the positive ruling,” Yanukovych said addressing leaders of political parties.

The ruling was needed “so that we have stability, so that we don’t have early parliamentary election, so that we could work for at least 2.5 years,” Yanukovych said. “I want this very much.”

Meanwhile, at least 11 out of 18 judges at the Constitutional Court will probably uphold the ruling that Yanukovych wants, Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper reported Thursday citing a source at the court.

The breakdown has become clear after the court had made a secret preliminary voting on the issue before releasing the final ruling next week, the source said.

Yanukovych seeks the ruling be made before April 11 when he travels to Washington to attend a nuclear non-proliferation summit, people familiar with the situation said.

The favorable ruling would strengthen legitimacy of his government that opposition groups claim has been formed through unconstitutional way.

Tymoshenko accused Yanukovych’s party for offering $1 million to each hesitating judge to uphold the ruling that would save the governing coalition. She said she got the information from within the Constitutional Court, but had refused to identify it.

Yanukovych denied the allegations.

“They try to influence the court through illegal means by telling stories that somebody goes to this court with the millions,” Yanukovych said. “These are all lies.”

The court is deliberating whether the governing coalition, created on March 11, has been created in line with the constitution.

The constitution demands the coalition to be created by groups, not individual lawmakers, controlling the majority of seats in the 450-seat Parliament.

Yanukovych’s Regions Party, the Communist Party and the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc - numbering a total of 219 lawmakers - created the 235-strong coalition after 16 defectors from two opposition groups had joined them.

Parliamentary Spaeker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Thursday the size of the coalition will soon increase to 260 lawmakers as the number of defectors from opposition groups will rise.

“I never make mistakes in my predictions,” Lytvyn said in an interview with the Channel 5.

Yanukovych said the Constitutional Court ruling will be made within a week. He said he would have to dismiss Parliament and call the snap election if the ruling is negative.

“This is very bad for the country,” Yanukovych said. “I hope, believe and will pray to God to make sure this doesn’t happen.” (tl/ez)




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