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7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 7th convocation (Ukrainian: Верховна Рада України VII скликання, Verkhovna Rada Ukrayiny VII sklykannia) was a convocation of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral 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 Kyiv on December 12, 2012, and ended its session on November 27, 2014, after the 8th Verkhovna Rada began its first session.

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Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
of the 7th convocation
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Seat composition on February 26, 2014.
Overview
Meeting placeVerkhovna Rada building
Term12 December 2012 (2012-12-12) – 27 November 2014 (2014-11-27)
Election2012 parliamentary election
(repeat elections in single mandate
constituencies on December 15, 2013)
Government29 committees
Websiteiportal.rada.gov.ua
Members
446 / 450
(on November 1, 2014)
ChairmanOleksandr Turchynov
(from February 22, 2014; Fatherland)
First DeputyVacant (from February 22, 2014)
DeputyRuslan Koshulynskyi
(from December 12, 2012; Svoboda)
Party controlCoalition (from February 27, 2014)
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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.[1] According to a study conducted by Opora, deputies did not work for 53 days during the first hundred days in the 7th convocation.[2]

Major events

December 2012 – February 2013

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.[7]
  • 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.[8] Parliament was unblocked on 19 March 2013.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • March 19, 2013. Party of Regions parliamentary leader Oleksandr Yefremov accused deputies from Svoboda of being neo-fascists after they booed a speech he made in Russian, which provoked a physical altercation to erupt between the two sides.[11][12]
  • March 29, 2013. Party of Regions members started to gather signatures for dismissal of Ruslan Koshulynsky from the position of parliamentary vice-speaker.[13] According to one of the Party of Regions members, Inna Bohoslovska it is done due to the fact that Svoboda is a neo-fascist party.[14]
  • 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:[15]
  1. Calling mayoral elections in Kyiv
  2. Repealing pension reform
  3. Considering the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
  • 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".[1][16] Party of Regions stated 244 deputies (in the 450-seat parliament) supported the move, but the opposition insists that number was 182.[17] The last time the parliament split into two and held two sessions on two different premises was in 2000.[17] One of the opposition leaders Oleh Tyahnybok pointed out to the fact that the decision to conduct a session beyond the premises of Verkhovna Rada building should be first adopted in the parliament building, citing the parliamentary regulations.[18] Opposition also claimed that none of its representatives were allowed to attend the session at Bankova.[17][18][19]
  • 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.[20] 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.[20][21] 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)[22][23] Arseniy Yatsenyuk "is leading to an intraparty split and is a politically corrupt man, who dreams of becoming a national leader."[24]
  • 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.[25]
  • April 11, 2013. Leaders of opposition factions, Yatsenyuk (Fatherland), Vitali Klitschko (UDAR) and Oleh Tyahnybok (Freedom) are due to appear in the Holosiyivsky District Court of Kyiv under a lawsuit filed by citizen Vira Ivanova due to the blocking of the Verkhovna Rada.[26]

June 2013 – September 2013

  • June 6, 2013. The opposition blocked the parliaments presidium seats until President Viktor Yanukovych reports his annual address to parliament personally in parliament (he had sent a written report).[27]
  • July 7, 2013. Pavlo Baloha and Oleksandr Dombrovsky mandates were officially cancelled.[28]
  • September 3, 2013 (opening session of the Verkhovna Rada after the summer recess[29]). President Yanukovych urged parliament to adopt laws so that Ukraine will meet the European Union (EU) criteria so Ukraine and the EU can formally sign an Association Agreement in November 2013.[29]
  • September 5, 2013. The Verkhovna Rada itself set the date of the 7 re-elections to 15 December 2013.[30]
  • September 12, 2013. The Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine deprived Rodina Party member Ihor Markov (at the time a member of the Party of Regions parliamentary faction) of his deputy seats.[31] The Court had established that the results in single-member districts number 133 (Odesa)[32] had been "unreliable".[31]

Leadership

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Oleh Tyahnybok (standing), Oleksandr Turchynov (left) and Ruslan Koshulynskyi (right) in parliament on February 24, 2014.

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

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Office MP Vote Term Party
Chairman Volodymyr Rybak 250–79–1[33] Dec. 13, 2012–Feb. 22, 2014 Party of Regions
Oleksandr Turchynov 288–0–5[34] Feb. 22, 2014–Nov. 27, 2014[35] Fatherland
First Deputy Chairman Ihor Kalietnik 241–100–0[36] Dec. 13, 2012–Feb. 22, 2014 Communist Party of Ukraine
Vacant Feb. 22, 2014–Nov. 27, 2014[37] Vacant
Deputy Chairman Ruslan Koshulynskyi 305–6–3[38] Dec. 13, 2012–Nov. 27, 2014[39] Svoboda
Faction and group leaders Oleksandr Yefremov Party of Regions
Arseniy Yatsenyuk Fatherland
Vitali Klitschko UDAR
Oleh Tyahnybok Svoboda
Petro Symonenko Communist Party of Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko Fatherland
Anatoliy Kinakh Economic Development
Ihor Yeremeyev Sovereign European Ukraine
Vitaly Hrushevskyi For Peace and Stability
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Members

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Main article: List of members of the 7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada

Single-mandate constituencies

Changes in membership

On 18 March 2013, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine registered Roman Stadniychuk of Batkivschyna and Oleksandr Kozub of Party of Regions as people's deputies in place of Andrey Verevskiy and Serhiy Vlasenko.[40]

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.[41]

Parliamentary factions and deputy groups summary

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Location of parliamentary factions in the 7th Verkhovna Rada on July 1, 2014:
  – 95 Non-affiliated
  – 86 Fatherland
  – 78 Party of Regions		   – 41 UDAR
  – 40 Economic Development
  – 36 Freedom		   – 35 Sovereign European Ukraine
  – 34 For Peace and Stability
More information Party (Shading indicates majority caucus), Total ...
Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total Vacant
Party of Regions Batkivshchyna UDAR Svoboda Communists Economic Development Sovereign European Ukraine For Peace and Stability Non-affiliated[a]
End of previous convocation[42][45] 195 97 DNP DNP 25 DNP DNP DNP 31 348 102
Begin[46] 185 101 40 37 32 - - - 43 438 12
12 December 2012[42] 208 99 42 36 27 444 6
11 June 2013[42] 207 93 34
31 December 2013[42] 204 90 38 442 8
21 February 2014[47] 177 55
22 February 2014[42][48] 134 88 115 447 3
23 February 2014[42] 131 118
24 February 2014[42] 128 123 449 1
25 February 2014[42] 127 33 91
27 February 2014[42] 122 32 37 60
28 February 2014[42] 36 36 57
4 March 2014[42] 119 87 33 60 445 5
15 March 2014[42] 120 88 35 37 58 448 2
18 March 2014[42] 82 41 33 439 11
25 March 2014[42] 88 35 447 3
8 April 2014[42] 109 34 33 38 68 446 4
10 April 2014[42] 108 35 70 449 1
11 April 2014[42] 106 42 37 71 448 2
20 April 2014[42] 104 41 72 446 4
16 May 2014[42] 103 39 35 73 447 3
29 May 2014[42] 87 31 40 74 446 4
6 June 2014[42] 80 85 40 32 95 442 8
1 July 2014[42] 86 41 24 104 445 5
2 July 2014[42] 32 73
4 July 2014[42] 78 23 34
24 July 2014[42] -[b] 41 95
25 July 2014[42] 35 36 93
Latest voting share 17.5% 19.3% 9.2% 7.9% 0.0% 9.2% 7.9% 8.1% 20.9%
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The ruling majority (225+ votes) is "situational" and officially consists of Party of Regions and most unaffiliated members.[citation needed][original research?] Communists are officially in opposition to everyone[50] but its parliamentary faction usually votes exactly the same as the Party of Regions parliamentary faction.[51] The parliamentary opposition includes UDAR, Fatherland and Freedom and other unaffiliated members.[52]

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Notes

  1. The United Centre (3 seats), People's Party (2 seats), Radical Party of Oleh Liashko (1 seat) and Union (1 seat) did not form their own faction. Their deputies did not join any faction besides 1 deputy of People's Party who became a member of the Party of Regions faction in December 2012[42] and Union's deputy joined the then newly created faction For Peace and Stability on 2 July 2014.[43][44]
  2. The Communist Party of Ukraine faction was dissolved 24 July 2014 two days after parliament had changed its regulations.[49]

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