The issue of installation of Rada-3 voting system in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, or introduction of the so-called "sensor button" was not included into any pre-election programs of "Batkivshchyna", "Svoboda" and "Udar" parties.
The First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ihor Kalyetnik said this.
“We face another political populism around a nonexistent problem today. During the pre-election campaign nobody promised their voters that one of the first issues to be settled in the Parliament of the seventh convocation would be the introduction Rada-3 voting system. All political forces assumed obligations to work for the needs of voters, create legislation that would improve citizens’ life and adhere to article 84 of the Constitution, providing for personal voting of each people’s deputy. What for are all theses discussions?” noted Ihor Kalyetnik.
He added that the day when the parliament’s session was to be opened almost all people’s deputies willing to vote personally were present, but the opposition hindered it.
“In the morning, before the beginning of the session, 411 people’s deputies were registered. It was quite enough to hold personal voting. Instead, for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada did not open its session on the day clearly defined by the Constitution – the first Tuesday in February,” said the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
I.Kalyetnik believes that opposition conducts a double-standard policy, since the issues initiated by the deputies from “Batkivshchyna”, “UDAR” and “Svoboda” factions were not considered, due to the blocked Parliament.
“During the meeting of the Conciliatory Council, opposition insisted on consideration of a number of parliamentary hearings that were included into the agenda of the session of the Parliament of the seventh convocation. Particularly, in regard to Shale gas production and parliamentary hearings on observance of human rights in Ukraine. Instead, all social problems were replaced by ‘sensor button’,” added the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
“It is an extremely negative example both in our sate and beyond its borders. Such things harm not only the image of the Ukrainian Parliament, but each people’s deputy in particular. Therefore, it is that important that our colleagues, who have initiated blocking, have come to understanding that the Verkhovna Rada has to work for the Ukrainian people and for development of our state,” stressed Ihor Kalyetnik.