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A bill on restructuring currency-pegged credits (No. 1558-1,) which was supported by the Ukrainian parliament on July 2, will be put up for voting again, Deputy Chair of Petro Poroshenko Bloc Ihor Kononenko has said.

“Today, a group of our lawmakers will register a resolution [draft resolution] and according to the regulations, which clearly say that if the fact of non-personal casting of votes is registered, the issue is to be put up for voting again. The bill will be put up for voting,” Kononenko told reporters in Kyiv on Friday.

He said Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Andriy Pavelko, whose card was used during voting, was in fact not in Kyiv

“I talked to Mr Pavelko and he is ready to personally confirm that he was absent in the session hall,” he said.

As reported, on July 2 the Ukrainian parliament passed at first reading a draft law on the restructuring of liabilities on currency-pegged credits at the exchange rate set at the moment when the credits were issued.

Kononenko said that the bill was passed under duress and that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko would not sign it. On Friday, a group of lawmakers said that they wanted to ask the parliamentary speaker to not sign the law and not send it to the president.

Batkivschyna MP Ihor Lutsenko also said that he plans to withdraw his vote along with some other lawmakers. He said that it was unclear what the lawmakers were voting for.