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The fight over the new Penal Code, between the government and the President, might be decided by the clock.
The government waited six days to deliver the amendments to the President for signature; as of Tuesday morning, it had not moved to deliver the law to the so-called Collection of Laws.
The Constitutional Court can only review a new law after it has been published. The law will go into effect on March 15, 25 days from now; the later the publication, the less time for the Court to review it. In theory, the coalition could delay the publication until March 15 and publish it at the last minute.
Filing the law is the job of the Ministry of Justice, which is run by Boris Susko, who belongs to the same party as the Prime Minister.
The delay has prompted President Caputova to address the Court directly. "I consider something like this unacceptable in a rule of law. The Constitutional Court is an independent judicial body for the protection of constitutionality, and it should not wait in a corner, figuratively speaking, to see if the person whom the Constitutional Court is supposed to control will allow it to speak."
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