The Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation is not only about the mono-majority and turbo mode. The CHESNO movement has investigated everything
13 November 12:49
Over the five years of the Verkhovna Rada’s work, almost 17,000 votes were cast, which is about 47 hours of button-pressing, if we count the standard 10 seconds per vote. Of these, 47% received more than 226 votes. This, but not only this, is the subject of a study by CHESNO based on the results of the current convocation of the Rada, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.
The Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation has been working for the longest time in the history of Ukrainian parliamentarism, and the CHESNO movement has summarized the results of five years of work of this Verkhovna Rada in a series of materials – from the first meeting on August 29, 2019, to the end of August this year.
As noted in the study, the best rate of participation in voting is expected to belong to the majority faction “Servant of the People” – 78%. And the worst voting record was recorded by pro-Russian MPs from the OPFL faction (later the PZZhM group, i.e., Platform for Life and Peace) – they participated in only 45% of the votes of this convocation.
Such a form of participation in voting as “did not vote” is not provided for in the Verkhovna Rada’s regulations. Nevertheless, over the five years of the current convocation’s work, in 13.6% of cases, MPs did not press any of the buttons, while being present in the hall – that is, they simply did not fulfill their duties.
Over the entire period of time, MPs from the Platform for Life and Peace (33% of the group) did not vote the most among factions and groups, while the Servant of the People (11%) and Voice (13%) abstained the least.
Following the 2019 parliamentary elections, the Servant of the People party managed to form a mono-coalition in the Verkhovna Rada. At the beginning of the convocation, this faction had 252 members and still has 233 MPs, which is still enough to make independent decisions solely by the votes of its “servants.” However, as the analysis of votes shows, the Servant of the People failed to maintain unity throughout the five years of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation. “The Servant of the People managed to secure the 226 votes necessary for decision-making in only 14% of all votes in the five years of the Verkhovna Rada’s work.
Instead, pro-Russian MPs provided critical votes for more than 860 decisions in the Verkhovna Rada. It is worth noting that MPs from pro-Russian forces changed their voting patterns dramatically after the ban on the Opposition Platform for Life party. Before the ban, pro-Russian forces in the parliament most often voted against it, but after the start of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, pro-Russian MPs vote more often in favor. This is another telling result of the work of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation.
