Turchynov says Regions Party has 14 duplicates of voting cards to vote for absent MPs

11:26, 11.01.2013 1 min read

Members of the parliamentary opposition have stated that the Regions Party parliamentary faction has received 14 duplicates of voting cards belonging to its members that were absent from the sitting on Friday.

"We were informed that yesterday in the evening the secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada passed eight duplicates of voting cards to the Regions Party, and six more were passed today in the morning," Batkivschyna parliamentary faction MP Oleksandr Turchynov said in the parliament on Friday.

According to him, the voting cards have been inserted in the voting slots in the last rows of the Regions Party faction's seats in the parliament, and the faction intends to use them for voting.