Factions will continue talks on unblocking the work of the Verkhovna Rada on Friday, and as of Tuesday UDAR is continuing to block the parliament's rostrum and presidium.
“What interim conclusions can be made from today’s meeting? Firstly, we are continuing to block the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, and we are continuing to insist on the need to ensure personal voting. Of course, it’s an exhausting procedure, but we’re holding on and are ready and go on until the end,” the deputy leader of the UDAR faction, Vitaliy Kovalchuk, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
“Secondly, we have to either find a mechanism for ensuring personal voting in the Verkhovna Rada, and find it together with representatives of the majority, or the country will have to hold early parliamentary elections,” he said.
He said that the next round of talks would be held on Friday.
“Now we cannot expect any fundamental shifts from the majority, but I want to say again that we will defend our position on personal voting until the end,” Kovalchuk said.
The deputy leader of the Batkivschyna faction, Andriy Ivanchuk, in turn, said that the faction was continuing to demand the launch of the Rada-3 electronic voting system. He also noted that the developers of this system had publicly documented and confirmed the possibility of introducing personal voting, which will make it impossible to vote for another MP.
The deputy leader of the Svoboda faction, Oleksiy Kaida, also said that the Svoboda faction was continuing to defend its position on the need to launch the Rada-3 system.
