Rada not to meet this week: next meeting may begin with consideration of UOC-MP ban
Kyiv • UNN
The Verkhovna Rada will not work this week due to MPs' demand to consider a bill banning the UOC-MP. The next session, likely in August, will begin with this issue.
The Conciliation Board decided that the Verkhovna Rada would not work this week. The majority of MPs said that until the bill banning the UOC-MP is considered, they will not consider other draft laws. The next meeting of the Rada, which will be held in August, will begin with consideration of the bill to ban the UOC-MP. This was reported by UNN with reference to MP Oleksiy Honcharenko.
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The Conciliation Board decided that the Verkhovna Rada would not work this week. The overwhelming majority of MPs said that until we consider the bill banning the Moscow church, we will not consider other bills
Mykyta Poturaiev, chairman of the Humanitarian Policy Committee and member of the Servant of the People faction, said that the faction's leadership does not support putting the bill to ban the UOC-MP to a vote.
Honcharenko also added that the next Rada meeting will begin with consideration of this draft law.
There is no information on the dates yet, but it will not be in July. The "Servants of the People" want to look at this draft law again, they have a proposal for two amendments. The committee will consider them and then put the bill to a vote. And the next meeting will start with this draft law
Earlier, Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk announced a 30-minute break in the parliamentary session. The MPs demanded to put to vote a bill that would ban religious organizations associated with the aggressor country and began to block the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada.
