Batkivschyna lawmaker Mykola Tomenko has said that eight Batkivschyna faction deputies have quit the European Choice coalition in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the seventh convocation.
“Eight Batkivschyna faction deputies have currently backed [the
faction’s] withdrawal from the coalition,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv
on July 24.
He said that the Batkivschyna faction had demonstrated that it is not afraid of new elections.
“We are 80 percent with the Ukrainian people [who are in favor of holding early parliamentary elections],” Tomenko said.
He said that most Batkivschyna deputies were ready for early elections.
As reported, Batkivschyna faction leader Serhiy Sobolev said from the
parliament’s rostrum on July 24that the faction was ready to accept
early parliamentary elections after a law is passed regarding the
proportional-representation system with open lists, and the
anti-terrorist operation ends in the east of the country.
“The Batkivschyna faction hereby declares that we accept the early
parliamentary elections and believe that under these conditions the only
way to hold these elections is to pass a law on the
proportional-representation elections based on open lists,” he said.
The second condition is “an immediate restoration of order and the
completion of the liberation of Ukraine’s territory from Russian
invaders and terrorists who support them,” he said.
