I don’t know the background to this story, but it looks like a further presidentialisation of the system in Ukraine.

Following the Constitutional Council’s decision returning Ukraine to a president-parliamentary form of semi-presidentialism, Kyiv Post is now providing some details of a change to the regulations of the government of Ukraine, or what I understand as the ‘Standing Orders’ of the government.

Anyway, the report states: “The regulations … contain a paragraph related to the program of activity of the government. It is stipulated that the program, which determines the cabinet’s strategy, will be developed on the basis of the election program of the president of Ukraine and proposals from members of the government.”

So, this suggests that from now on the president will formally set the government’s legislative agenda for the parliamentary term. I am not sure whether this is a significant change, but it does seem to me to be another move that strengthens the legal authority of the president.