Rybak defines priorities in Parliament’s work

In particular, the Parliament is to consider the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine concerning the powers of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine.

At this plenary week (February 5 - 8), MPs plan to consider 27 questions in three session days.

 

"This is a relatively small period," the speaker said, and added that the MPs will consider both new issues and the issues, left from the previous session.

According to the speaker of Parliament, on Tuesday, February 5, MPs will consider six organizational matters relating to the plenary hearings and appointment of some extraordinary local elections, as well as three bills.

On Wednesday, the MPs plan to work in the committees.

On Thursday, 13 issues will be considered. In particular, these are ratifications, dismissals and appointments of judges, appointment of elections, as well as a number of bills with the proposals of the President of Ukraine.

On Friday, the deputies plan to hold "Government’s Question Hour". As first vice Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov assured, the ministers are ready to come to the Parliament and to answer all the questions of the MPs.

 

The Party of Regions supported the agenda. The faction head Oleksandr Yefremov emphasized that six bills (on GMOs; debt of the coal industry to the Social Security Fund; changes in the law on the Cabinet of Ministers; the amendments to the Budget Code; material aid for large families) are of high priority.

Opposition factions said that the Parliament will work only if the MPs vote personally. The head of the Batkivshchyna faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk continues insisting on the introduction of Rada-3 voting system. He is supported by the UDAR Party faction head Vitali Klitschko. The Svoboda faction head Oleh Tyahnybok offers to block voting cards of the MPs, who fail to register before the sitting.