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Razumkov elected as chairman of Verkhovna Rada

By Interfax-Ukraine.
Dmytro Rozumkov (center) leader of President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People party speaks during the first session of the new parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, in Kyiv on Aug. 29, 2019.
Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

Parliamentarian from the Servant of the People Party Dmytro Razumkov has been elected chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation.

Some 382 deputies voted for him at a plenary meeting of the first session of the newly elected parliament on Thursday, an Interfax-Ukraine agency correspondent reported.

The European Solidarity faction voted against – 26 deputies.

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