nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190724-200930-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190724s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190724-200930-0 doi eng 342 23 Hartwig, Matthias Author aut Strengthening the President – Betraying Maidan? - Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Decision on the Premature Dissolution of the Ukrainian Parliament Hartwig, Matthias Verfassungsblog 2019-07-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last Sunday's parliamentary elections resulted in a composition of the Verkhovna Rada – the Ukrainian parliament – which guarantees a solid majority to the President's party. The circumstances leading to the prematurely held elections, however, were more than doubtful from a constitutional law perspective. The Constitutional Court (CC) confirmed the dissolution of Ukraine’s parliament as constitutional in a controversial decision which strengthens the position of the president and thereby ignores the intentions and objectives of the Maidan revolution of 2014. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Court Dissolution of Parliament parliamentary elections Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/strengthening-the-president-betraying-maidan/ raw object