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The Servant of the People faction since 2023 has never gathered 226 of its own votes for the laws it has passed.
The parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People has lost its actual single-party majority and since May 2023 has not independently delivered 226 or more votes for bills that ultimately became laws in Ukraine. To approve key decisions, the government is forced to constantly enlist auxiliary votes from parliamentary groups and the opposition, as evidenced by the results of a study by the public initiative “Golka.”
Key “saviors”
During consideration of personnel issues, the ruling majority most often receives help from remnants of the pro-Russian party OPZH and the parliamentary group “Dovira.”
An analysis of votes shows the following distribution of support:
Group “Dovira”: provided 77 auxiliary votes to approve decisions.
Remnants of OPZH: if you combine the indicators of two deputy groups (“Renewal of Ukraine” and “Platform for Life and Peace”), their total contribution exceeds that of “Dovira.”
“European Solidarity”: provides decisive votes when important Eurointegration bills are considered.
Situational barter
Researchers applied a mathematical methodology — Bancsaf index (an indicator that measures not the absolute number of votes cast, but the real structural importance of a faction for achieving final success in a vote). By this index, the most notable dynamic is shown by the parliamentary group “For the Future,” associated with Ihor Kolomoyskyi’s business group. It rarely shows high activity in ordinary votes, but its support grows rapidly during situational exchange — when the government gets the necessary votes in exchange for supporting a decision favorable to this group.
Research journalist and data engineer of the public initiative “Golka,” Oksana Stavniychuk, notes that the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, learned to build situational coalitions. But this indicates not political flexibility, but the absence of a real coalition during the war that could take full responsibility for the course of the state. Since elections during a state of war are impossible, forming a coalition government is a feasible task, but the OP and the single-party majority do not see a need for it while the situational mechanism works.
In turn, the head of the European Integration Committee, Ivanna Klimash- tzintzadze (“European Solidarity”), emphasized the faction’s readiness to form a national unity coalition. She stressed that this is possible only under the conditions of forming a real accountable government, signing a coalition agreement, and adhering to the principle of an inclusive dialogue, as was the case in the early months of the full-scale invasion.
As of August 2026, vacancies remain in 47 single-member districts in the Verkhovna Rada, and overall the parliament has lost 71 member of parliament. Most of them left of their own accord by moving to other government positions.
The study was prepared on the basis of open data, organized in a digital service within the project “Recharge the country, you can do it” with support from NED.
Recall that earlier Golka’s study, on the seventh anniversary of the parliament, found that the Batkivshchyna faction most often sabotages votes on bills from the Ukraine Facility Plan (a EU multi-year financial assistance program to Ukraine totaling 50 billion euros). The adoption of these documents directly affects the inflow of funds to the Ukrainian state budget to cover wartime expenditures.
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