23:21 05.11.2015

Batkivschyna faction to boycott parliament meetings until Teteruk remains MP

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Batkivschyna faction to boycott parliament meetings until Teteruk remains MP

The Batkivschyna faction in the Verkhovna Rada will not participate in parliament meetings until deputy head of the People's Front faction Andriy Teteruk who was engaged in an incident with female parliamentarian Oleksandra Kuzhel remains MP, Batkivschyna said in a statement.

"Until that man remains Member of Parliament, we at the Batkivschyna faction do not consider it possible to participate in Verkhovna Rada meetings," the faction said in connection with a brawl between Teteruk and Batkivschyna MP Kuzhel on Thursday evening.

Batkivschyna also demands that the Public Prosecutor General's Office immediately table a motion in parliament to strip Teteruk of deputy immunity and arrest him. Batkivschyna also says it expects that People's Front will withdraw Teteruk's deputy mandate.

As Interfax-Ukraine reported earlier, Kuzhel was reportedly hit in the head with a glass bottle by Teteruk. MP Serhiy Vlasenko, who witnessed the incident, said that Teteruk had made "insulting statements vis-à-vis Batkivschyna faction members and rudely offended Kuzhel in person and hit her in the head with a glass bottle."

MP from People's Front Anton Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook, citing Teteruk's explanation that there had been a verbal brawl between Kuzhel and Teteruk when he was leaving the parliament speaker's office. "Oleksandra Kuzhel suddenly turned around and tried to hit him her bag. He was holding a half-liter bottle of water and tried to pour some water on Kuzhel to stop her. However, according to his words, he accidentally hit in Kuzhel's face with the bottle," Gerashchenko wrote.

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