In response to complaints from MPs, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk provided statistics on how and how long they were abroad, UNN reports .
Details
According to Stefanchuk, since the full-scale invasion, the Servant of the People faction, which consists of 235 MPs (52.22% of the Parliament), has received approval for 53.24% of the total number of business trips, which is 4.23 business trips per MP.
At the same time, the European Solidarity faction, which constantly complains about alleged "political persecution" and consists of 27 MPs (6% of the Parliament), received approval for 9.74% of the total number of business trips, which is 6.7 business trips per MP.
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According to Stefanchuk, MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze from the European Solidarity faction was sent on 31 business trips outside Ukraine, in which she spent 172 days out of 648 days of the full-scale war abroad.
In the "internal rating" of the number of business trips, she ranks third among all MPs
Stefanchuk also cited statistics on business trips abroad by other MPs from the European Solidarity. Thus, Iryna Gerashchenko was on business trips 19 times, Artur Gerasymov - 18 times, Maria Ionova - 18 times, Oleksiy Honcharenko - 17 times.
According to him, he is on the 30th place in the "rating", but did not disclose the data of any other faction.
Addendum
Yesterday, December 2, European Solidarity MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said that the authorities did not let her and two faction colleagues Iryna Gerashchenko and Maria Ionova go on a business trip to the United States.
To recap,
MP from the European Solidarity party, the fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said on Friday that he was once again not allowed to go abroad on a business trip. Later it became known that his business trip abroad was canceled by the Verkhovna Rada.
The SBU reported that Russia planned to use the meeting between the fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbanin its ISIS against Ukraine. Therefore, the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada did not grant permission for a foreign business trip to a Ukrainian MP.