The Ukrainian parliament has legislatively secured the right of the Verkhovna Rada chairman to dissolve a faction if it is smaller than during its formation at the first session.

A total of 232 MPs voted at the fifth attempt for the respective law introducing amendments to the Verkhovna Rada rules of procedure regarding the composition and the cessation of activity of factions (groups).

Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov promised to send the law to the president for signature within the next 24 hours.

"Today I will send this law to the president and ask him to sign it immediately and then I will announce the dissolution of the Communist Party of Ukraine faction," he said.

Ukrainian MPs introduced a provision to Article 60 of the law on the Verkhovna Rada rules of procedure according to which a parliamentary faction (group) whose composition was numerically smaller than the minimum number of MPs who were in the smallest faction formed during the first session of parliament can be dissolved by the speaker 15 days after the reduction.

As reported, several MPs quit the Ukrainian Communist Party faction last month, thus the composition of the Communist Party faction in parliament became smaller than during its formation at the first session.