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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 7th convocation (, ) was a
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of the legislative branch of the
Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...
,
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's
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parliament. Its composition was based on the results of the 2012 parliamentary election. Half of the seats in the parliament were apportioned between the five winning parties based on the popular vote, while the other half was apportioned between 4 parties and 44 independents between 225 constituencies throughout the country. It first met in the capital
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on December 12, 2012, and ended its session on November 27, 2014, after the 8th Verkhovna Rada began its first session. Parliamentary work was virtually paralyzed the first months of 2013 because the opposition (UDAR, Fatherland, Freedom, others) blocked the podium and presidium seats on various days. According to a study conducted by Opora, deputies did not work for 53 days during the first hundred days in the 7th convocation.


Major events


December 2012 – February 2013

* December 12, 2012. Election of presidium, establishing parliamentary factions, establishing and assigning of committee, PACE Ukraine delegation, other. * December 13, 2012. Confirming on the Presidential appointment of
Mykola Azarov Mykola Yanovych Azarov (; ; née, né Pakhlo, Cyrillic: Пахло; born 17 December 1947) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 to 27 January 2014. He was the First Vice Prime Minister an ...
as the
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* February 5, 2013. Parliamentary 2nd session did not start as the "opposition" (UDAR, Fatherland, Freedom, others) blocked the podium (tribune) and presidium seats in the protest of Rybak's actions and it demanded an end to the practice of deputies voting for non-present colleagues. Parliament was unblocked on 22 February 2013 after procedural measures had been implemented to prevent multiple voting. * February 8, 2013. The
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member Pavlo Baloha (at the time a member of the
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parliamentary faction) and
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Oleksandr Dombrovsky of their deputy seats.Higher Administrative Court deprives two MPs of deputy seats
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(9 February 2013)
ВИЩИЙ СУД ПОЗБАВИВ МАНДАТІВ ДВОХ ДЕПУТАТІВ ''Superior Court denied MANDATES two deputies''
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(8 February 2013)
The Court had established that the results in single-member districts number 11 (
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; Dombrovsky) and number 71 (
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; Baloha) during the October
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had been "unreliable".


March 2013-April 2013

* March 5, 2013. The Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine stripped
Andrey Verevskiy (Party of Regions) of his seat in parliament because he simultaneously was parliamentary deputy and headed a commercial entity. * March 5, 2013. Members of Fatherland blocked the podium (tribune) and presidium seats in the protest of Chairman Rybak's inquiry to the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on depriving Serhiy Vlasenko (Fatherland) of his seat in parliament. Parliament was unblocked on 19 March 2013. * March 6, 2013. The Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine stripped Serhiy Vlasenko (Fatherland) of his seat in parliament because he practiced advocacy and was a people's deputy at the same time. * March 19, 2013. Party of Regions parliamentary leader
Oleksandr Yefremov Oleksandr Yefremov or Aleksandr Efremov (, ) is a Ukrainian former parliamentarian and politician. A former governor of the Luhansk Oblast, from 2010 until 2014 he was Party of Regions's faction leader in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliamen ...
accused deputies from Svoboda of being
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after they booed a speech he made in
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, which provoked a physical altercation to erupt between the two sides. * March 29, 2013. Party of Regions members started to gather signatures for dismissal of Ruslan Koshulynsky from the position of parliamentary vice-speaker. According to one of the
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members,
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it is done due to the fact that Svoboda is a neo-fascist party. * April 3, 2013. Parliamentary session did not start as the "opposition" (UDAR, Fatherland, Freedom, others) blocked the podium (tribune) and presidium seats; they had three demands: #Calling mayoral elections in Kyiv #Repealing pension reform #Considering the resignation of the
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. * April 4, 2013. With the blocking the podium (tribune) and presidium seats continuing pro-government legislators left the official parliament hall and voted to approve to routine pieces of legislation in a nearby building (6-8 vulytsia Bankova); according to them (chairman of parliamentary regulations committee and participants of the Bankova meeting) "the sitting of the parliament could be held in another place if legislators want".Ukraine parliament session seized by ruling party
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(4 April 2013)
Party of Regions stated 244 deputies (in the 450-seat parliament) supported the move, but the opposition insists that number was 182. The last time the parliament split into two and held two sessions on two different premises was in 2000.Ukraine parliament moves building amid opposition blockade
,
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(4 April 2013)
One of the opposition leaders
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should be first adopted in the parliament building, citing the parliamentary regulations. Opposition also claimed that none of its representatives were allowed to attend the session at Bankova.Tyahnybok: Insurgents will be punished
YouTube Svoboda channel
Chuhunnikov: At the meeting Regionals and Communists there are only 169 deputies
UDAR YouTube channer.
* April 4, 2013. Batkivschyna legislators Oleh Kanivets, Vitaliy Nemylostyvy, Roman Stadniychuk and Ihor Skosar wrote statements to Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak with an applications to withdraw from the Batkivschyna faction. Later that day (only) Nemylostyvy and Stadniychuk confirm this while Kanivets and Skosar insisted that they are still the members of the Batkivschyna faction the press service of Batkivschyna party reported.MPs Nemylostyvy, Stadniychuk confirm their withdrawal from Batkivschyna faction
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(4 April 2013)
Again later that day Kanivets and Skosar released a manifesto statement they did made "the only possible decision – to leave the ranks of the faction" because (Batkivschyna faction leader)Ukraine's united opposition discussing formation of single party
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(7 December 2012)
Five factions, including Communist Party, registered in parliament
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(12 December 2012)
Arseniy Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served two terms as Prime Minister of Ukraine – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016. He was t ...
"is leading to an intraparty split and is a politically corrupt man, who dreams of becoming a national leader." * April 5, 2013. Parliament did not start its session, as it was still blocked; the next plenary session of the parliament is scheduled for April 16. * April 11, 2013. Leaders of opposition factions, Yatsenyuk (Fatherland),
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June 2013 – September 2013

* June 6, 2013. The opposition blocked the parliaments presidium seats until
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reports his annual address to parliament personally in parliament (he had sent a written report). * July 7, 2013. Pavlo Baloha and Oleksandr Dombrovsky mandates were officially cancelled.Baloha, Dombrovsky no longer MPs
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(EU) criteria so Ukraine and the EU can formally sign an
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in November 2013.Ukrainian president asks for laws to be passed to facilitate EU association agreement
,
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(3 September 2013)
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(3 September 2013)
* September 5, 2013. The Verkhovna Rada itself set the date of the 7 re-elections to 15 December 2013.Rada schedules reelection in troubled districts for December 15
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(5 September 2013)
* September 12, 2013. The Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine deprived
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member Ihor Markov (at the time a member of the
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parliamentary faction) of his deputy seats.Court strips MP Ihor Markov of his mandate
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(12 September 2013)
The Court had established that the results in single-member districts number 133 (
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) had been "unreliable".


Leadership

The parliament's chairman, first deputy, and deputy are all unaffiliated people's deputies according to parliamentary procedure.


Members


Single-mandate constituencies


Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Those representing
Autonomous Republic of Crimea The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is a ''de jure'' administrative division of Ukraine encompassing most of Crimea that was unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupies most of the peninsula,Union. # Vitalina Dzoz (R) # Lev Myrymsky (Union, not member of a faction) # Olena Netetska (R) #
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(R) # Valentina Lyutikova (R) # Yuliya Lyovochkina (R) # Serhiy Braiko (R) # Borys Deich (R) # Oleksandr Nechayev (R) # Hryhoriy Hruba (R)


Cherkasy Oblast

Those representing
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consisted of four deputies from the Party of Regions, one Independent, and two disputed constituencies. # ''Disputed'' # Volodymyr Zubyk (R, elected as an independent) #
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(R) # ''Disputed'' # Viktor Tymoshenko (I, not member of a faction) # Valentyn Nychyporenko (R, elected as an independent) # Anton Yatsenko (R)


Chernihiv Oblast

Those representing
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consisted of three deputies form the Party of Regions, one Independent, one from Fatherland, and one from the
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. # Valeriy Dubil (Fa) # Vladyslav Atroshenko (R, elected as an independent) # Ihor Rybakov (I, not member of a faction) #
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(Rad, not member of a faction) # Ivan Kurovsky (R, elected as an independent) # Mykola Rudkovsky (R, elected as an independent)


Changes in membership

On 18 March 2013, the
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registered Roman Stadniychuk of Batkivschyna and
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of
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as people's deputies in place of Andrey Verevskiy and Serhiy Vlasenko. In June 2013 people's deputies of Batkivschyna claimed they had been offered bribes of $2 million to $6 million for leaving the parties parliamentary faction, becoming member of the Party of Regions faction or for voting for legislation proposed by it.


Parliamentary factions and deputy groups summary

The ruling majority (225+ votes) is "situational" and officially consists of
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and most unaffiliated members. Communists are officially in opposition to everyone but its parliamentary faction usually votes exactly the same as the Party of Regions parliamentary faction. The parliamentary opposition includes
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, Fatherland and Freedom and other unaffiliated members.Ukraine's Opposition Again Blocks Parliament Podium
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(4 April 2013)
Ukraine parliament reopens after four weeks, but fists fly again
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per
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(19 March 2013)
Tiahnybok also goes to Brussels to attend meeting of European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs
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(27 August 2013)


See also

* Second Azarov Government * First Yatsenyuk Government


Notes


References


External links

* {{Verkhovna Rada Ukrainian parliaments