KIEV
Ukraine's political opposition wants parliament to begin discussing a new draft bill about a possible return to the 2004 constitution, which would see a return to a "parliamentary-presidential system", on Tuesday.
Opposition party Batkivshchyna's leader Arseny Yatsenyuk said they had asked parliament to consider a return to the previous consistution, which operated between 2004 and 2010. He said returning to the 2004 is the only solution to end Ukraine's continuing political crisis.
Yatsenyuk said returning to the 2004 constitution would represent a return to a presidential authority that would allow parliament to establish a government, an independent judiciary and the reinstatement of the Parliament on Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and Ministry of Interior.
In 2010 the Ukrainian Constitutional Court announced that the 2004 constitution was illegal and ordered the reinstatement of the 1996's Constitution, which Yatsenyuk says gives the President dictatorial powers.
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