The Batkivschyna parliamentary faction has demanded that the situation with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko be considered by the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, at an unscheduled sitting on January 29.
The faction leader, Arseniy Yatseniuk, sent a relevant letter to Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak on Monday.
“The opposition demands that the Verkhovna Rada call an unscheduled
sitting on January 29 in order to form an inquiry panel to investigate
violations of the constitution by the imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko
and [former Interior Minister of Ukraine] Yuriy Lutsenko, consider
issues related to the political responsibility of the Security Service
of Ukraine and the Interior Ministry chiefs for the involvement of law
enforcers in political persecutions, as well as on the resignation of
the prosecutor general,” reads the statement.
Earlier, the UDAR parliamentary faction announced that it has started collecting signatures to support the initiative.
Regions Party parliamentary faction member Volodymyr Oliynyk said
that his faction was ready to help the opposition collect signatures.
