The group for the preparation of the first meeting of the newly elected Verkhovna Rada has voted on the agenda of the first session of the parliament for the period of consideration of organizational issues of the first session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the ninth convocation. The first working meeting of the parliament will begin with the formation of a temporary presidium of the first session of the Rada. Then, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman will announce the resignation of powers by the Cabinet of Ministers in front of the new Verkhovna Rada.
After that, parliamentary factions and groups will be formed. Then the issue of a coalition of deputy factions (a deputy faction that has coalition rights) will be resolved.
The accounting commission of the parliament, its chairman, first deputy and deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada will be elected.
Next, an extraordinary message from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the internal and external situation in Ukraine will be heard.
MPs also intend to dismiss the head of the Security Service of Ukraine and appoint a new head of the agency, to resolve the issue of giving consent to the dismissal from office by the president of the prosecutor general of Ukraine and the appointment of a new prosecutor general.
At 1030, a press breakfast will begin at Transparency International Ukraine to discuss anti-corruption priorities of the Verkhovna Rada of the new convocation (DEPO Conference Hall, 50 Antonovycha Street, Library Conference Room). Registration for participation by 1800 on August 27 online: http://bit.ly/pressnidanok.
Additional information by phone or e-mail: (066) 789 5895, karpinska@ti-ukraine.org.
The Servant of the People Party will propose Chairman of the party Dmytro Razumkov as a candidate to the post of Chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada.
“Today, the party will offer me as a candidate for the post of chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,” Razumkov said in Truskavets on Saturday, answering a question from Interfax-Ukraine.
The session of the Verkhovna Rada of the ninth convocation, according to the law, should take place no later than September 10, the parliament staff predict that the newly elected members of parliament will gather as soon as possible after the elections. After voting at the extraordinary elections of the Verkhovna Rada on July 21, the Central Election Commission (CEC) should within 20 days publish official results in the official newspapers Holos Ukrainy and Uriadovy Kurier with the list of elected parliamentarians.
According to the legislation, the Verkhovna Rada meets for the first session in the hall of the parliament no later than on the 30th day after the announcement of the voting results.
Thus, the first session of the parliament should take place before September 10.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has sent to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a bill amending some laws of Ukraine on cutting electricity tariffs.
The document was registered in the parliament on June 26. The text of the bill has not been made public.
As reported, representative of the head of state in the Ukrainian government Andriy Gerus said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initiated the legislative change of the Rotterdam+ formula by the Rotterdam- formula in order to reduce electricity tariffs. He said that according to the document, the cost of shipping coal from Rotterdam to Ukraine should be removed from the formula. In addition, it is proposed that discounts be introduced if the quality of coal is worse. The bill also provides for a delay in the introduction of the electricity market for one year.
Five parties can enter the parliament, and more than half of Ukrainians intend to vote in early elections. Those are the results of a survey conducted by Ukraina TV channel Sehodnia (Today) ezine with the Edison Research. The field research of the survey was conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
Survey results, which were published by on Sehodnia’s website, show five parties can enter parliament: Servant of the People, Opposition Platform – For Life, European Solidarity, Holos and Batkivschyna.
Four more parties which have a chance of surpassing the five percent barrier are Strength and Honor, Opposition Bloc – Peace and Development Party, Oleh Liashko’s Radical Party and Civil Position.
The survey was conducted by Edison Research by telephone and personal interview in all regions of Ukraine, except for Russia-occupied Crimea and Russia-occupied parts of Donbas.
