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Four MPs, Oleh Kanivets, Vitaliy Nemylostyvy, Roman Stadniychuk and Ihor Skosar have said they have quit the Batkivschyna faction.

“According to the Article 60 of Verkhovna Rada regulations, under their personal applications Kanivets, Nemylostyvy, Stadniychuk and Skosar stated they have left the Batkivschyna faction of Verkhovna Rada of the seventh convocation,” Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak reported at the conference of the parliamentary majority on Thursday, which is being held at Bankova Street.

There should be 450 MPs in parliament. However, at present there are only 445 registered, since elections in five majority districts failed.