Higher Administrative Court deprives two MPs of deputy seats

Published Feb. 9, 2013 at 9:45 am

Opposition lawmakers wearing red shirts block the work of the Ukrainian parliament in protest of what they allege is an undemocratic process by the ruling party, during the parliament session hall in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The inscription on red shirts read 'Personal voting.'

Photo by AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

The Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine has deprived Yedyny Tsentr Party member Pavlo Baloha of his deputy seat. Baloha is a member of the Regions Party parliamentary faction, according to the information on the Web site of the Verkhovna Rada.

The press service of the Yedyny Tsentr Party told an Interfax-Ukraine
reporter that the court approved this decision on Friday.

The party’s press service also told the agency that the court issued the same
ruling on independent MP Oleksandr Dombrovsky (constituency No. 11,
Vinnytsia).