Parliamentary majority decides to hold session outside Verkhovna Rada
The parliamentary majority has decided to conduct sessions of the parliament outside Verkhovna Rada at Hrushevskoho Street.
As a correspondent of Interfax-Ukraine reported, 244 MPs supported this decision at the conference of the parliamentary majority on Thursday that is being held at Bankova Street.
The next decision was to close the plenary sitting of Tuesday and open the plenary sitting of Thursday. The Verkhovna Rada chairman then opened the morning sitting of parliament. The sitting is being held in the premises of the parliamentary committee at Bankova Street.
Afterwards, those present at the meeting 244 MPs agreed with the proposal of Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak to take a decision through a show of hands.
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak, his deputy Ihor Kaletnyk, Regions Party faction leader Oleksandr Yefremov and Communist Party faction leader Petro Symonenko are on the presidium.
There are three opposition factions in the Verkhovna Rada: Batkivschyna (99 MPs), UDAR (42 MPs), and Svoboda (36 MPs).
The biggest faction is in the Regions Party (208 MPs). The Communist Party has 32 MPs. Another 27 MPs are inter-factional.
On April 4, Rybak announced that four MPs had quit the Batkivschyna faction.
