Ukraine's President dissolves court for ‘wrong’ ruling

13 Oct, 2008 19:14 / Updated 16 years ago

Ukraine's President Yushchenko has dissolved a local administrative court in Kiev. He took the action on Monday following the court's ruling against Yushchenko's decree to hold early parliamentary elections.

The judge found in favour of Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, who argued that Yushchenko's decision was unconstitutional. It's reported that a new central regional administrative court will be created to replace it. On October 8 the president dissolved the Parliament and called for early elections, following the break-up of the ruling ‘orange coalition’ last month. Court backs Timoshenko’s bid to prevent election Ukraine’s President dissolves parliament Ukraine’s political crisis goes into extra time Ukrainian MPs agree on early election? Will Yushchenko dissolve Rada? Ukraine stuck in new political crisis