The legislation proposes to establish a procedure for dismissing ministers by the Verkhovna Rada following the results of the interpellation procedure. The relevant bill 13596 registered in the parliament by a group of people's deputies.
It is proposed to establish appropriate changes regarding the grounds for dismissal of ministers in the law on the Cabinet of Ministers, regulations, and other laws.
Interpellation – initiative-based mandatory consideration by the Verkhovna Rada of the issue of the activities of the First Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers or Ministers with a requirement to provide explanations regarding issues within their powers and to resolve the issue of the satisfaction of their work.
As the deputies explain, parliamentary control over the executive branch in Ukraine is currently mainly informational and advisory in nature. The legislative body is seriously limited in its ability to apply sanctions in connection with the detection of deviations in the activities of the central executive body.
The purpose of the bill is to ensure that the Verkhovna Rada exercises control over the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers by establishing the right of people's deputies to initiate mandatory hearings on the activities of an individual member of the government and to resolve the issue of the satisfaction of his work.
The grounds for interpellation are decisions, actions, or inaction of individual members of the Cabinet of Ministers, which may result in:
- the rights and interests of Ukraine, foreign states or other subjects of international law, territorial communities, individuals and legal entities have been violated;
- obstacles have been created for the realization of legitimate interests or freedoms by the subjects of legal relations;
- any obligations are improperly imposed on the subjects of legal relations;
- International treaties of Ukraine concluded on behalf of the Government of Ukraine or on behalf of ministries have not been fulfilled or have been incompletely fulfilled, or such treaties have been concluded in violation of the national interests of Ukraine.
The basis for an interpellation is a deputy's demand.
At least 45 people's deputies or a committee of the Verkhovna Rada, whose area of responsibility includes the sphere of activity of an individual member of the Cabinet of Ministers, have the right to address the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada with a deputy's demand at a session of the Verkhovna Rada.
Based on the results of the interpellation, the Verkhovna Rada has the right to recognize the work of an individual member of the government as unsatisfactory.
Within 15 days from the date of adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of a resolution recognizing the work of an individual member of the Cabinet of Ministers as unsatisfactory, the Prime Minister is obliged to submit to the Verkhovna Rada a proposal to dismiss this member of the Cabinet of Ministers (except for the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defense of Ukraine).
If the Prime Minister does not submit a proposal, the Verkhovna Rada decides on the dismissal of a member of the government without the Prime Minister's proposal.
In the event of a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada recognizing the work of the Minister of Foreign Affairs or the Minister of Defense as unsatisfactory, the Verkhovna Rada recommends that the President submit a proposal to dismiss the relevant Minister of Ukraine.
