After travelling for a few days, perhaps a few lines are due relating to President Poroshenko’s proposals delivered to the Verkhovna Rada relating to constitutional change to enshrine NATO and EU membership within the Constitution of Ukraine.
There are of course many ways to perceive this decision domestically – considering the transparently expedient timing as presidential elections appear upon the immediate political horizon. It is perhaps the last opportunity for the current president to display the ability to raise a constitution changing 300 (or more) votes from within the Verkhovna Rada during his current (and perhaps only) term. A display (of sorts) of presidential political force.
Longer term however, there is also little chance over the following few decades that 300 votes would be gathered to overturn any changes that make the EU and NATO membership a constitutional obligation.
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