Odesa residents protest against the new Civil Code

A group of more than 100 Odesa residents went to Exchange Square and staged a protest against the adoption of the new Civil Code in front of the Odesa City Council.

According to an international correspondent, during the rally, the participants held cardboard posters with slogans against the code.

In particular, the norms of the document were compared to similar ones in the codes of the Soviet Union and Russia, and they also emphasized the inadmissibility of introducing customary law, as this concept is vague.

Earlier, Accent found out what the experts were concerned about. Christina Tristan, the initiator of the protests in Odesa, Anatoliy Boyko, the head of the Odesa Committee of Voters of Ukraine, and Karolina Palaychuk, a lawyer and board member of the human rights organization "Prozhektor," expressed their position.

"Unfortunately, I don't think anything good about the new Civil Code. And in principle, in my opinion, the war and the situation we are in now is not the best time to adopt such a serious document as the Civil Code. It would be better to wait until after the end of hostilities, the end of the war. If any changes were needed, as required, for example, by our European integration commitments, then changes had to be made. Why rewrite the entire wording of such a cornerstone document in all respects? Why the challenge, and why such a resonance? Well, obviously, because of either haste or some, I don't know, malicious intent, there are a lot of, to put it mildly, controversial or, well, directly outrageous things in this civil code, in this document that is being proposed," Anatoliy Boyko said.

Earlier, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said that the draft new Civil Code does not provide for norms that narrow the rights of the LGBT community, but only preserves the current legal regulation without additional restrictions. The speaker assured that the draft Civil Code does not narrow any rights and preserves the status quo that exists now. He also said that the term "goodwill" in the draft Civil Code is the Ukrainian equivalent of the European concept of boni mores.

Кирило Бойко