And the leaders of parties and factions often ignore the meetings of their own committees.
For the first four months of 2022, a quarter of people's deputies , or more precisely 101 parliamentarians, stopped reimbursement of expenses related to the exercise of their parliamentary powers, according to the material of the parliamentary analyst of the “HONEST Movement” Alexander Salizhenko for ZN.UA “ Sanctions against absentees: time of war ».
Absentees who did not receive funds are in all factions and parliamentary groups, as well as among non-partisan ones, but most of them in the presidential party “Servant of the People” – 30 (although only 12% of party members are absent), and among former OPZZH – 29 At the same time, 66% of deputies in the last party are absent.
Also, almost half of the members of the parliamentary group “For the Future” – 10 deputies, 44% of non-partisan MPs (11 people) and a third of the “Fatherland” – 8 deputies are absent from the parliamentary session. Prominent deputies such as David Arahamiya, leader of the Servant of the People faction, and his deputy Mykola Tyshchenko, Petro Poroshenko, former president and head of European Solidarity, Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the Batkivshchyna party, and Levochin Reconstruction of Ukraine “Vadym Stolar and Igor Abramovich and many others.
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Recall that in October 2019 the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the legislation, according to which a People's Deputy who during a calendar month of one regular session without good reason does not personally participate in more than 30% of votes in decision-making in plenary At their meetings or in more than 50% of the meetings of the committee to which he was elected, for this month do not reimburse the costs associated with the exercise of parliamentary powers.
