Made by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko draft changes to the Constitution have not found the necessary support in Parliament, said the Deputy head of the faction "Block of Petro Poroshenko" Anatoly Matvienko.
for the decision about the direction of the draft amendments to the constitutional court voted 288 deputies at necessary 226 votes, reports the news Agency.



"This discrepancy shows that we need 300 votes on the final version, but they are not, and that means - will have to work hard," said Matvienko, noting that he has " too many questions to this act ". On Thursday the Verkhovna Rada approved amendments to the Constitution, the draft was sent to the constitutional court For evaluation. The direction of change in the constitutional court upheld 288 deputies are Glad of 450. For the final adoption of the law on introducing changes to the Constitution is necessary for Over 300 votes of parliamentarians. The meeting was attended by the us Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt and U.S. assistant Secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia Victoria Nuland. In the Donbass told that these amendments are irrelevant to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated before that shows the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada the project of constitutional reform completely ignores the suggestions of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass.

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