Party of Regions members block Ukraine parliament presidium

KIEV, February 3 (Itar-Tass) - Deputies of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from the Party of Regions on Wednesday long before the opening of the extraordinary session of the Rada blocked its presidium and rostrum. On the initiative of the Party of Regions the parliament was to introduce on Wednesday amendments to the law on the country’s presidential election.

A group of deputes of the party was keeping watch at the session hall overnight, and in the morning they blocked not only the rostrum and presidium, but also some entrances to the hall. The session was to be opened at 11:00, Moscow time.

Vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Nikolai Tomenko expressed surprise by the actions of the Regions Party. “I don’t understand the logic of their actions, because it looks like a paradox – to invite to an extraordinary meeting and then shut the doors before us,” Tomenko noted. According to him, the faction of the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko (BYT) all the same will take part in the Rada’s extraordinary session, but it will oppose the adoption of changes to law on the presidential election on which the Party of Regions insists.

Source:itar-tass.com/