The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Rybak intends to hold a meeting with the representatives of deputy factions on Friday to prepare the proposals regarding consideration of issues proposed by the opposition for the extraordinary session by Monday, when the meeting of the Conciliatory Council will be held.
The Chairman of the Parliament said this on Tuesday in his interview to the journalists after the meeting with representatives of Batkivshchyna faction who, according to him, “demanded signing the order on holding the extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.”
Volodymyr Rybak stressed that he would not sign such order due to a number of serious reasons.
Particularly, he informed that the initiators of the extraordinary session have not collected the necessary number of signatures of people’s deputies, as after their check by the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat 7 out of 158 signatures did not match the originals, and 10 other signatures were doubtful, as they stood beside the names of people’s deputies who were outside Ukraine at the moment when the signatures were collected, which is indicated in an address of a people’s deputy to the Chairman of the Parliament.
V. Rybak supported the necessity to discuss these questions both with faction leaders on Friday, and at the Conciliatory Council on Monday, “but there is no point in summoning the extraordinary session, as the second session of the seventh convocation is to start on Tuesday.” He noted thereat that holding an extraordinary session, even if 300 people’s deputies participate in it will cost the state UAH 3 billion 627 thousand. The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stressed that the questions proposed by oppositional factions “should be considered after the beginning of the new session.”