Regions Party MPs leave parliament until Friday

14:19, 07.02.2013 1 min read

Members of the Party of Regions' faction in the Verkhovna Rada have left the session hall of the Ukrainian parliament.

The faction's leader, Oleksandr Yefremov, held a meeting with lawmakers in the session hall, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported. It was impossible to make out what he was saying, but at the end Yefremov told MPs: "If there are no questions, then we can go until 1000 tomorrow."

As reported, leaders of the parliamentary factions gathered for a meeting at the office of Speaker Volodymyr Rybak, where they were discussing the issue of the introduction of touch-sensitive buttons for personal voting and unlocking the parliament's work.

Currently, representatives of all three opposition factions continue to block the rostrum and the presidium in the session hall, demanding personal voting.