Rada fails to vote on appointment of Constitutional Court judges

At a meeting on Wednesday, October 8, the Verkhovna Rada failed to vote on the appointment of judges to the Constitutional Court. This became known from the broadcast of the parliamentary session.

None of the four candidates proposed by the advisory group of experts received the required minimum of 226 votes.

Thus, the candidacy of Zakhar Tropin, Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Representation of the Ministry of Justice, was supported by 224 MPs. Oksana Klymenko, Chief Scientific Advisor of the VR Research Service on Legal Policy, was voted for by 93 MPs.

Yulia Kyrychenko, a board member of the Center of Policy and Legal Reform, was supported by 126 MPs. 74 MPs voted for the appointment of Taras Tsymbalistyi, a prosecutor of the Prosecutor General's Office, as a judge of the CCU.

Since no candidate received 226 votes, Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk ordered to announce a new competition for the vacant positions of Constitutional Court judges under the Verkhovna Rada quota.

According to the law, the CCU consists of 18 judges. The President, the Verkhovna Rada and the Congress of Judges appoint six judges each.

• On June 27, Zelenskyy appointed a new Constitutional Court judge, lawyer Oleksandr Vodiannikov, under his quota.
• After this appointment, the number of CCU judges increased to 12, and the institution now has a quorum again. It hasn't existed since January 2025, when three judges of the instance expired.