Following the decision, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that if parliament did not restore these anti-corruption laws, foreign aid, loans and a visa-free travel to the European Union were at risk. The 27 October ruling of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled invalidated much of Ukraine's 2014 anti- corruption reform as unconstitutional. On 28 October, the NACP shut down public access to the Unified State Register of Asset Declarations, which was restored overnight the following day in line with the Shmyhal Government decision following public outrage.
The NABU responded by claiming that as a result of the court ruling, all criminal cases probing inaccurate asset declaration would be closed, while officials exposed on abuse would avoid responsibility. This decision deprived the NACP of access to state registers required for vetting declarations of candidates for government offices, thus blocking the appointment of officials, including those elected in the October 2020 Ukrainian local elections. On 27 October the court, on the motion of 47 legislators, recognized the provisions of the laws on e-declarations' vetting as unconstitutional and stripped the relevant watchdog, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) of powers to vet declarations and identify conflicts of interest. On 28 July, it declared unconstitutional the Presidential decree of 16 April 2015 on the appointment of Artem Sytnyk as NABU Director. On 16 September, the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional certain provisions of the law on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
In July 2020, 49 People's Deputies of Ukraine (47 of these were members of the Opposition Platform - For Life political party ) appealed to the Constitutional Court with a motion to recognize as unconstitutional the law on the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine of 7 June 2018. As of July 2021, there is an ongoing constitutional crisis in Ukraine since 27 October 2020, when the Constitutional Court of Ukraine invalidated much of Ukraine's 2014 anti- corruption reform as unconstitutional.
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