Challenge launched against dissolution of Ukraine parliament

MPs supporting Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych asked the Constitutional Court today to consider the legality of the president's latest decree dissolving parliament and calling early elections, the court said.

President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday replaced his April 2 decree dissolving the legislature and announcing snap elections in late May with a new decree pushing the election date to June 24 to have enough time to prepare for the vote.