4 February 2014

Vitali Klitschko, leader of the UDAR faction, called on the Verkhovna Rada to vote for a return to the 2004 Constitution. This proposal was supported by the leader of the “Batkivshchyna” Arseniy Yatsenyuk. At the same time, as it became known, Yulia Tymoshenko handed over a letter in which she called on the Batkivshchyna faction to refuse to return to the 2004 constitution and prepare for the presidential elections. UDAR leader Vitaliy Klitschko, who met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych after the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, said that the President proposed to carry out all constitutional changes upon returning to the 2004 Constitution in the legal field, which may take several months. Klitschko himself considers this approach unacceptable: “We have every reason to make a political and legal decision and vote for the Act of Return to the Constitution of 2004. And it can be done quickly.”