Rada updates CEC composition, appointing 14 new members
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has appointed 14 new members of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
The newly appointed members of the Central Election Commission are: Alla Basalayeva (Vidrodzhennia group; 280 affirmative votes); Natalia Bernatska, First Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine (People's Front; 307 affirmative votes); Mykhailo Verbensky, Director of the Department for Analytical Work of the Interior Ministry (Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP); 286 affirmative votes); Andriy Yevstigneyev (Batkivschyna; 309 affirmative votes); Iryna Yefremova (People's Front faction; 307 affirmative votes); Olha Zheltova, deputy head of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy and Justice (BPP, 305 affirmative votes); Oleh Konopolsky (BPP, 288 affirmative votes); Svitlana Kustova (BPP; 306 affirmative votes); Olha Lotiuk (BPP; 296 affirmative votes); Vitaliy Plukar (BPP; 302 affirmative votes); Yevhen Radchenko (Samopomich; 289 affirmative votes); Tetiana Slipachuk (People's Will; 317 affirmative votes); Leontiy Shypylov (People's Front; 308 affirmative votes); Tetiana Yuzkova (Radical Party; 307 affirmative votes).
