Parliament may vote on his candidacy in the near future.
Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations supported the candidacy of the People's Deputy Dmytro Lubinets for the position of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.
The members of the Committee approved the conclusion on the compliance of Dmytro Valeriyovych Lubinets' candidacy for the position of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights provided by the Law of Ukraine “On the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights and the absence of reasons preventing him from holding this position”, of the committee following the June 27 sitting.
Earlier, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk noted that the parliament could consider the appointment of an ombudsman at the next plenary session.
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On May 31, the Verkhovna Rada voted for dismissal of Lyudmila Denisova from the post of ombudsman . Denisova's resignation was initiated by the “Servant of the People” faction, which gathered more than 100 votes to initiate consideration of the issue. The faction accuses Denisov of lack of work results, incompetence and submission of facts about the crimes of Russian troops in Ukraine, which only damage the reputation, because they failed to prove them.
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk said on June 21 that he proposed Dmytro Lubinets, People's Deputy, to the position of the Commissioner for Human Rights.
Dmytro Lubinets is a lawyer, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation (from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc) and the IX convocation. In 2019, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada as a non-partisan self-nominated candidate in the №60 constituency (Donetsk region) and became a member of the For the Future parliamentary group, which later transformed into a party.
