Stefanchuk signed a resolution to restore the broadcasts of the Verkhovna Rada meetings

Photo: Facebook/Ruslan Stefanchuk

The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk signed a resolution to restore direct broadcasts of the meetings of the Parliament by the TV channel “Rada”.

Source: Chairman of the Committee on Freedom of Speech Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Verkhovna Rada site

Details: According to Yurchyshyn, the closest meeting of the Verkhovna Rada will take place on September 16 and will be broadcast. He thanked his colleagues in Parliament for supporting the resolution and called a solution to the result of the pressure of society and the media, which demanded more openness of Parliament.

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What was before:

• On September 1, a project of a resolution from a number of people’s deputies on the restoration of broadcasts of the Council appeared on the website of the Parliament, in the “servant of the people” reported that they would support it. The Project of the resolution, in particular, stated that “the direct broadcasting of plenary sessions of the Verkhovna Rada since the beginning of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation has not been carried out to ensure security measures. At the same time, the current security situation, given its change, in many cases allows to restore broadcasts without creating additional risks.”
• On September 4, the People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported that the Verkhovna Rada had voted for the restoration of broadcasting of parliament meetings since mid -September.
• On July 30, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said that parliamentary sessions are not broadcast in real time “for security reasons” from the beginning of a full -scale war in 2022.