Quotable notes

"The election of the president by Parliament, in my opinion, means limiting the rights of voters, that's true. But a similar limitation is present in the shift to a proportional parliamentary-election system, since a man loses the possibility of being elected to Parliament if he does not adhere to any ideology. And as regards our Constitution, it firmly declares that there is no mandatory ideology for our citizens. Therefore, if we speak about a referendum on how to elect the president, then the question of a law on parliamentary elections under a proportional system needs to be submitted to a referendum as well."

-Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn in an interview in the January 17-23 issue of Zerkalo Nedeli.

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