Parliament fails to approve session schedule, closed until Thursday
The Ukrainian parliament has failed to approve the schedule of the fourth session of the Verkhovna Rada of the seventh convocation.
Only 185 deputies out of the necessary 226 voted for a respective draft resolution on Wednesday.
An Interfax-Ukraine reporter said that MPs had also rejected a proposal to make the next week, from February 10 to February 14, a plenary week.
The Batkivschyna and UDAR factions insisted that parliament meet every day until all questions posed by Ukrainian citizens at protests are resolved.
Batkivschyna faction leader Arseniy Yatseniuk addressed Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak with the request to invite President Viktor Yanukovych to parliament so that he instructed the Party of Regions faction to vote for the documents to return to the 2004 Constitution.
After an unfruitful vote, Rybak adjourned the meeting and expressed hope that the faction leaders will reach a compromise on the issue of constitutional reform by Thursday morning.
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