The council failed to recall Boyko from the human rights committee: who did not vote

PHOTO FROM TG NARDEP ZHELEZNYAK

The Verkhovna Rada lacked the votes to recall the head of the “Platform for Life and Peace” parliamentary group Yuriy Boyko from the position of a member of the Verkhovna Rada committee on human rights, de-occupation and reintegration of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, national minorities and international relations.

Source: deputy from the “Golos” faction Yaroslav Zheleznyak in Telegram, interlocutors of the UP among those present at the parliament session

Zheleznyak’s direct speech: “The Council was not even able to recall Yuriy Boyk from the position of a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, National Minorities and Inter-National Relations.”

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Details: 217 deputies out of 226 required voted “for” Boyko’s recall:

“Servant of the People” – 166;

“European solidarity” – 17;

“Voice” – 12;

“Fatherland” – 7;

“For the future” – 4;

“Trust” – 4;

“Platform for life and peace” – 0;

“Restoration of Ukraine” – 0;

Non-fractional – 7.

According to the interlocutor of the UP among those present at the meeting, during the consideration of this issue, some deputies from “Servant of the People” left the session hall.

The day before, the People’s Deputies summoned to the Verkhovna Rada for a report Prosecutor General Oleksiy Khomenko and Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Malyuk. Khomenko and Malyuk came to the parliament, but did not speak from the rostrum. They took part in a closed meeting with leaders of factions and groups.

Prehistory:

• On December 15, Yuriy Boyko, the head of the deputy group “Platform for Life and Peace” in the parliament, which was created from former members of the OPZZ, a former minister and deputy prime minister during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, published a statement with pro-Russian theses about alleged “radicals” and “the ban on speaking one’s native language.” in Ukraine.
• Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk reminded Boyka who is actually responsible for the violence in Ukraine – the head of the aggressor state Vladimir Putin and his regime.
• On December 17, Boyko came to the Security Service of Ukraine for questioning.
• After being summoned for questioning by the SBU, he published a video message in which he apologized to Ukrainians for his previous video with pro-Russian narratives, and also called the leader of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, a war criminal.