The Rada did not have enough votes to exclude Boyko from the committee
18 December 15:31
The Verkhovna Rada did not have enough votes to recall MP Yuriy Boyko from his position as a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations. This was announced by a member of the Voice faction Yaroslav Zheleznyak in his telegram channel, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.
According to him, only 217 MPs out of 226 required voted in favor.
Zheleznyak also showed how the voting went by factions.
The following factions voted in favor of Boyko’s recall:
- “Servant of the People” – 166;
- “European Solidarity – 17;
- “Voice – 12;
- “Batkivshchyna – 7;
- “For the Future” – 4;
- “Dovira” – 4;
- “Platform for Life and Peace” – 0;
- “Restoration of Ukraine” – 0;
- Non-factional – 7.
“Only three MPs voted against, all of them members of the “Platform for Life and Peace” parliamentary group headed by Boyko. At the same time, 52 MPs did not vote at all.
Yevhenia Kravchuk, deputy head of the Servant of the People faction , said that the decision on Boyko would be returned to tomorrow, “hopefully with a productive vote.”
As a reminder, on December 16, a draft resolution was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada to recall Yuriy Boyko from the position of a member of the Human Rights Committee.
on December 17, Yuriy Boyko was summoned for questioning by the Security Service of Ukraine. After being interrogated by the SBU , Boyko recorded a video apologizing to Ukrainians and calling Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin a war criminal.
It should be noted that the former co-chairman of the Opposition Platform – For Life party, which was banned in 2022, Yuriy Boyko, posted a statement on TikTok in which he expressed support for people who allegedly suffer from some “radicals” in Ukraine and the alleged ban on speaking their native language.
He accused the unnamed “radicals” of forbidding people in Ukraine to speak their native language, go to the church they want, demolish monuments and rename cities.
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