A member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Holos faction Yaroslav Zhelezniak said that 602 amendments have been received to the bill on renaming the kopeck into a shah.
He announced this on his Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"602 amendments have been received to the bill on renaming the "kopeck" into a "shah". The bill consists of a couple of paragraphs in total, where one word is changed to another," the MP wrote.
At the same time, he specified that on December 27, these amendments will be considered in the Verkhovna Rada, and the law itself will be considered on January 13.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on December 18, the Verkhovna Rada supported the bill on renaming the kopeck into a shah in the first reading.
The NBU states that almost 14 billion coins are currently in circulation in Ukraine.
In fact, in the future, for some time (3-4 years), only 50-shah coins will be issued, approximately several tens of millions of pieces.
On November 5, the head of the National Bank, Andrii Pyshnyi, stated that Ukraine plans to replace its kopeck coins with "shahs" by the end of the year in order to get rid of the symbol of Moscow's former dominance.
On October 15, the National Commission for Securities and Stock Market spoke out against renaming "kopecks" to "shahs".
On October 3, former member of the National Bank's board, Vitalii Shapran, reported that Ukrainian coins with the inscription "shah" did not physically exist in circulation on the territory of Ukraine.
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