The opposition is blocking the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada for the second day. The reason – is a claim on deprivation of the Fatherland faction member Serhiy Vlasenko of parliamentary mandate. "We have informed our opponents that we will start working when they are be ready, because the Rada should function", the Head of the Party of Regions Oleksandr Yefremov said. He has also informed, that ... →
The Civil Network OPORA continues to watch and analyze law-making activities of MPs of Ukraine of VII convocation. In February 2013, the majority of "useful" parliamentarians was noticed in the Svoboda faction (66.67%), and the smallest part – in the Party of Regions (32%). The indicators show that only one third part of the Party of Regions participated in the preparation of draft laws in ... →
The Parliament is blocked by the opposition again. This time – in connection to the deprivation of the Fatherland faction member Serhiy Vlasenko of parliamentary mandate. We remind, that the VRU Head Volodymyr Rybak appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine regarding the deprivation of Vlasenko of parliamentary mandate for combining his parliamentary duties with law practice. The ... →
Information about parliamentary activities should be open to the public, – activists of the Civil Network OPORA think. In order to urge responsibility and openness of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and attraction of citizens to its activities, OPORA has signed the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness. Declaration on Parliamentary Openness - is a call to national parliaments by civil society ... →
This year, the Parliament was blocked during the longest time for the whole period of independence. During its seven convocations, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has seen two and a half political crises, which ended with dismissal of the parliament in 1994, 2007, and 2008. Besides that, the speaker's rostrum was blocked 20 times. These data were published by the Civil Network OPORA. Contemporary ... →
Oleksandr Yefremov has proposed to take decisions by a simple majority of MPs present in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada. The Party of Regions faction head has announced this proposition during the briefing on February 22. "Each decision shall be taken by not less than 150 MPs, not 40 MPs present in the session hall". According to the Party of Regions faction leader, the majority of ... →
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has resumed its work after being blocked for 3 weeks. After long negotiations between leaders of factions and few minutes after the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has informed that the Rada is unblocked in the live television program Dialogue with the Country, opposition factions have unblocked the speaker's rostrum and presidium of Ukrainian parliament. As a ... →
Leader of the opposition is convinced, that Oleksandr Kliuiev is the main instrument to influence the parliament, which in his turn considers directions of the President. Meanwhile, the Party of Regions faction leader Oleksandr Yefremov informed that Viktor Yanukovych is disturbed about the situation in the parliament and is interested in finding consensus. We remind, that according to the ... →
The Verkhovna Rada will be unblocked only in case MPs will vote with hands. Such decision was taken on the last meeting of parliamentary factions. ... →
