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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine during a session. Photo: facebook.com/RublevVyacheslav
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine may move to voting in the shelter during air raids. The relevant draft resolution has already been supported by the majority of members of the parliamentary Committee on Rules. For deputies, a secured chamber for more than 300 seats has been prepared.
This was stated by Oleksandr Korniyenko, first deputy speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, to journalist Galyna Ostapovets of News.LIVE at the annual YES meeting organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
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Oleksandr Korniyenko. Photo: facebook.com/oskorniyenko/
The Rada will operate during an air raid siren
According to Korniyenko, in case of an air-raid warning, deputies will be able to move to a specially prepared room in about ten minutes. For this they plan to use the hall where the meeting of the Coordinating Council usually takes place. However, the shelter will not be able to accommodate all 450 deputies.
“In the event of an air raid warning, you can move within ten minutes to the hall we prepared. This is the meeting hall of the Coordinating Council,” Korniyenko said.
The first deputy speaker noted that in the shelter they prepared a separate system that will allow members of parliament to vote using mobile phones. It will operate only within a closed network.
According to Korniyenko, the technical solution must prevent a situation where one parliamentarian votes instead of another.
It will also be impossible to use the system outside the specially designated area.
Currently, when an air-raid warning is announced, the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada is adjourned, and MPs must move to the shelter.
As a reminder, earlier the News.LIVE portal reported why the Verkhovna Rada will not hold plenary sessions until 1 October. Ruslan Stefanchuk explained what the deputies will be doing.
News.LIVE also reported on the cancellation of the planned government questions hour in the Verkhovna Rada. The minister of education and science Andriy Butenko was supposed to report to the deputies, but government officials left for a summit in Bukovel.
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