Parliament decides to work on anti-crisis bills in committees until Tuesday

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The Ukrainian parliament that dismissed Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk November 12 decided to work on Thursday and Friday in committees on anti-crisis bills submitted by the government and MPs.

First Vice Speaker Oleksandr Lavrynovych closed a morning meeting of the parliament and said that the next one would take place on Tuesday, November 18.

A candidate for the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada might be nominated during this period.

The parliament has registered only one bill on the nomination of Volodymyr Lytvyn, the leader of the eponymous bloc, as speaker. Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc MP Oleksandr Omelchenko has submitted this document on his own initiative.

Another Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc MP Pavlo Zhebrivsky said that his faction is against its participation in a vote on the election of the parliament's chairman until a new coalition is formed. Moreover, the OUPSD has yet take an official decision on its position on a vote on the speaker's election.

The Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko expressed a similar position. This faction is not planning to participate in the election of the Verkhovna Rada chairman until the formation of the coalition.

The opposition Party of Regions, which played a major role during the dismissal of Yatseniuk on Wednesday, will propose to nominate its MP, First Vice Speaker Oleksandr Lavrynovych for the post of new speaker. Regions Party member Oleksandr Yefremov announced this at a briefing on Wednesday.

As reported, on November 12, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Yatseniuk from the post of the parliament's speaker. The decision to dismiss him received support from 175 MPs from the Regions Party, one MP from the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, ten MPs from the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc, 27 from the Communist Party and 20 from the Bloc of Lytvyn.

President Viktor Yushchenko said that Yatseniuk's dismissal from the speaker's post had destabilized the political situation. The head of state refused to comment on Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's accusations against his involvement in this dismissal.

She said that in this way, the president wants to hold snap parliamentary elections.

UKRINFORM