Today, on 19 December, the Verkhovna Rada recalled MP Yuriy Boyko from the Human Rights Committee.
According to MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, there were 258 votes in favour.
‘At the second attempt, the Parliament recalled Yuriy Boyko from the position of a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations,’ Zheleznyak wrote.
It should be noted that during the consideration of the draft resolution on the expulsion of Yuriy Boyko from the Human Rights Committee, a scuffle broke out between members of the European Solidarity and the Servant of the People factions. This was reported by MPs from different factions.
In particular, the head of the EU faction, Petro Poroshenko, after speaking from the rostrum and calling to ‘expel OPFL from the hall’, began a discussion with MP Mykyta Poturayev of the Servant of the People. At the same time, a scuffle broke out between the co-chair of the EU faction, Artur Herasymov, and Servant of the People MP Bohdan Yaremenko. Serhiy Ionushas, the head of the Rada's law enforcement committee and a member of the Servant of the People party, and other colleagues tried to stop the fight. And the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, asked his colleagues to immediately stop such actions.
For her part, Iryna Herashchenko commented on the fight in the Rada.
‘An incident in the Verkhovna Rada. After the Servant MP Heorhiy Mazurashu defended Boyko and OPFL from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, European Solidarity expressed a strong protest against these Kremlin narratives from the mono-majority. In response to the manipulation of his servants that Poroshenko was not present at the vote to recall Boyko from the committee on Wednesday, Petro Poroshenko said that he was handing over UAVs and night vision devices to units from the Kursk direction at that time,' Herashchenko wrote.
She noted that at this time, a deputy from the ‘servants’, Bohdan Yaremenko, intervened in the conversation, shouting ‘What, without you there is no one to hand over the drones?!’.
‘So it turns out that there is no one, because the state has failed to provide for the Armed Forces!’ And then the servant went to fight for the “EU”. That's right, it's not with OPFL that they have to fight. So, the servants condemn and criticise the assistance to the Armed Forces! The servants work in tandem with the OPFL. And we are radicals for them,' Herashchenko said.The MP added that her faction is preparing a statement to the Regulatory Committee demanding that MP Yaremenko be removed from plenary sessions for chronically unparliamentary behaviour.