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⚖️ Ihor Mosiychuk filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court challenging the appointment of Kovalskyi as acting Prosecutor General.
In the lawsuit Ihor Mosiychuk asks the court to declare the Decree unlawful and invalid in full. In his view, after the dismissal of Ruslan Kravchenko the exercise of the powers of the Prosecutor General should have been carried out in accordance with the procedure defined by the Law of Ukraine “On the Prosecutor’s Office”: if there is no Prosecutor General his powers are exercised by the first deputy, and if he is absent — by one of the deputies.
At the same time Kovalskyi was neither the first deputy nor a deputy Prosecutor General — he headed the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
The key question the court must consider is whether the president had the right by his decree to change the statutorily established order for assigning the exercise of the powers of the Prosecutor General?
The lawsuit also raises questions regarding:
🔺the President’s appointment of a person outside the statutory sequence of deputies;
🔺the de facto vesting of the powers of the Prosecutor General in that person;
🔺the absence of a defined term for performing such duties;
🔺the lack of participation by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in determining that person.
It is separately emphasized that the first deputy and deputies of the Prosecutor General are appointed by the Prosecutor General, whereas the Prosecutor General himself is appointed by the President of Ukraine with the consent of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Now the Supreme Court must provide a legal assessment of the lawfulness of the President of Ukraine’s Decree No.946/2026.
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