Parubiy Closes Rada Conciliatory Council Meeting Over Disorder

Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Andriy Parubiy has closed the meeting of the parliamentary conciliatory council over disorder arranged by some MPs who came to the meeting to demand consideration of bills on parliamentary elections on October 17.

He announced this during the meeting, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"I want to say that it is disruption of the conciliatory council meeting, representatives of factions cannot speak and I am suspending the conciliatory council meeting as it is impossible to continue it... I am inviting all to the plenary session hall at 1 p.m.," he announced.

A number of MPs came to the meeting of the conciliatory council. They supported the demands of the rally outside the Verkhovna Rada for a political reform envisaging to the proportional election system with open party tickets, creation of the anticorruption court, and limitation of deputy immunity.

The MPs included Yehor Sobolev, Mustafa Nayem, Serhii Leschenko, Svitlana Zalischuk, Yurii Levchenko, Viktor Chumak, Yurii Derevianko, Volodymyr Parasiuk and others.

However, representatives of three factions - the Solidarity Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, the People's Front, and the Will of People - voted at the meeting of the conciliatory council to start the plenary session meeting on Tuesday with consideration of the healthcare sector reform.

Then the MPs supporting the rally outside the parliament disrupted the meeting of the conciliatory council.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Parubiy urged the parliamentary committee for legal policy and justice to consider bills limiting deputy immunity as soon as possible.