You're reading: Turchynov says Regions Party has 14 duplicates of voting cards to vote for absent lawmakers

Members of the parliamentary opposition have stated that the Regions Party parliamentary faction has received 14 duplicates of voting cards belonging to its members that were absent from the sitting on Friday.

“We were informed that yesterday in the evening the secretariat of
the Verkhovna Rada passed eight duplicates of voting cards to the
Regions Party, and six more were passed today in the morning,”
Batkivschyna parliamentary faction MP Oleksandr Turchynov said in the
parliament on Friday.

According to him, the voting cards have been inserted in the voting
slots in the last rows of the Regions Party faction’s seats in the
parliament, and the faction intends to use them for voting.