“EU” again disrupts Rada meeting over sanctions against Poroshenko: video
14 February 12:38
The speaker of the Verkhovna Rada closed the session, which was also supposed to be an “hour of questions to the government,” without starting it, because members of the European Solidarity faction were blocking the rostrum and the government box. This was reported by MPs Yaroslav Zheleznyak and Iryna Gerashchenko, Komersant ukrainskyi reports
The plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada on Friday, which was supposed to begin with the traditional “Hour of Questions to the Government,” was marked by the blocking of the rostrum and seats for ministers by the European Solidarity faction.
Government officials were unable to get to their seats, and EU MPs took them, protesting the sanctions imposed by the National Security and Defense Council on their leader Petro Poroshenko the day before.
Video footage from the session hall shows that there were very few MPs present.
The MPs also removed the chair of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada.
The “servant of the people” Andriy Motovylovets asked to return the chair. Gerashchenko replied that there is no legal requirement that the Speaker of the Rada sit down.
“I want to say that there is no provision in the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada that the speaker should chair the session sitting down,” she said.
According to MP Oleksandr Fediyenko, after the National Anthem was played, some MPs left the session hall.
It should be noted that the day before, a parliamentary session was also disrupted after a group of European Solidarity MPs gathered around Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk with placards that read: “Ukraine is not Russia”, “Think about victory, not elections”, “No to dictatorship”, etc.
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Yesterday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his traditional evening address that the National Security and Defense Council had imposed sanctions:
“Everyone who destroyed the national security of Ukraine and helped Russia must be held accountable.”
The president said that the billions earned by surrendering Ukraine’s interests should work for the benefit of Ukraine. He did not say whom exactly he meant.
After that, Poroshenko published an address and said that the sanctions were imposed against him. He called the decision unconstitutional.
