Rada fails to consider mobilization bill. What will happen to scandalous bill

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk has said that the Rada decided to send a bill on mobilization back to the Cabinet of Ministers for revision.

He wrote about this on his page on Facebook, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"Therefore, a joint decision was made to send all the recommendations and proposals to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine," the speaker of parliament said on the mobilization bill.

He called the corresponding decision the general position of all political forces, representatives of the government and military leadership.

Earlier, the Member of Parliament from the Holos faction Yaroslav Zhelezniak told how today's meeting of the Rada was held.

According to him, before the start of the air raid, the Rada managed to consider only one bill - No. 9667-1 on clarifying the legal principles of the Deposit Guarantee Fund's regulation of banks’ participation in the deposit guarantee system.

No other issues were considered today, including mobilization.

"Well, to put it briefly, there will be nothing on the law on mobilization. Not today, not tomorrow. Not in the near future," Zhelezniak wrote.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, it was expected that the Verkhovna Rada would consider a bill on mobilization in the session hall on Thursday, January 11.

On December 25, the Cabinet of Ministers introduced a bill on mobilization to the Rada, which in particular provides for lowering the minimum conscription age for mobilization from 27 years to 25 years, abolishing the exemption from mobilization for the 3rd group disabled people, abolishing the deferral from mobilization to those receiving the second higher education and allowing territorial recruitment and social support centers (military commissariats) to issue electronic summonses.

Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said that the mobilization bill contains a number of norms that directly contradict the Constitution of Ukraine. In particular, we are talking about the restrictions that the bill proposes to introduce on those citizens who evade mobilization: the Cabinet of Ministers proposed to the Verkhovna Rada to prohibit evaders from driving vehicles, conducting transactions with movable and immovable property, taking loans and disposing of funds.