Mykola Tomenko: The Parliament is supposed to solve the Problem of By-workers Deputies and secure the Work of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting
Today, in the course of the conciliative council, M. Tomenko, the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has pointed out the attention to the problem of by-workers deputies. "Several weeks already, the group of the People´s Deputies that is working in the Administration of the President preserves its deputies offices, chairmen and deputy chairmen of influential Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine that contradicts the effective legislation and causes problems for the work of the relevant Committees", - he briefed.
He also stated that, for the first time, in the history of Ukraine "at the suit of one of the Russian music channels that are in the group of "Inter" television company, Kyiv County Administrative Court actually dismissed from their offices two members of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting Matters Tetiana Lebedeva and Viktor Ponedilok." M. Tomenko emphasized that appointing and dismissal of National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting Matters members is exclusively under the authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and announced that he would initiate the scrutiny of this issue in the Verkhovna Rada and would demand the adequate reaction of the President of Ukraine on these illegal actions.
"The work of the most influential body in mass media management is actually stopped and the solution is only one the Parliament must form the personnel of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting", - M. Tomenko announced and addressed the Parliamentarians with the appeal to scrutinize the issue during this plenary week.