Opposition blocks Rada rostrum, protesting against use of Tabalovs' voting cards
Three opposition factions – Batkivschyna, UDAR and Svoboda – have blocked the parliamentary rostrum, protesting against violations recorded during the adoption of a resolution extending the Verkhovna Rada's session on Wednesday, the press service of the Batkivschyna Party has reported.
The opposition said that a respective vote was illegal, because the voting cards of Andriy and Oleksandr Tabalovs were used in it.
Batkivschyna is insisting that Tabalovs "did not take the oath of MP."
As reported, the voting cards of Andriy and Oleksandr Tabalovs were used to vote for a resolution extending the evening plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada until the completion of the consideration of all issues and a draft resolution on the creation of an audit commission.
Batkivschyna faction deputy Andriy Shevchenko said in his blog on Twitter that "Tabalovs were not present in the session hall, but their voting cards were used in the vote for the illegal extension of the parliament's work."
The press service of the Batkivschyna United Opposition said early on Wednesday that the father and son Tabalovs had not joined the Batkivschyna faction, thus violating the oath of office of candidate for MP, which they signed on August 5, 2012.
In this connection, Batkivschyna demanded that Oleksandr Tabalov and his son, Andriy, who were elected to the Verkhovna Rada from Batkivschyna, drop their mandates.
Andriy Tabalov, born in 1983, was elected in single-seat constituency No. 99, receiving 32.8% of the vote and beating his Regions Party opponent by a margin of 2.5%. His father, born in 1957, was elected to parliament on the Batkivschyna list as No. 49. According to MP Oleksandr Yavorivsky, the Tabalovs were recommended by Yatseniuk's Front for Change Party.