Betrayal in the Verkhovna Rada

Today, March 11, the Verkhovna Rada approved the personnel changes to the highest executive posts in Ukraine. 242 deputies voted in favor, including those who can be considered traitors to their voters – representatives of BYuT and OU-PSD.

The Party of Regions, Communist party and Lytvyn Bloc all gave their votes for Mykola Azarov’s appointment as prime minister, as did the following members of BYuT: Volodymyr Kaplienko, Hryhoriy Omelchenko, Ihor Savchenko, Vitaliy Barvinenko, Hennadiy Zadyrko, Yuriy Poluneev, and Oleh Cherpitsky; and 11 members of OU-PSD: Yuriy Buta, Stanislav Dovhy, Davyd Zhvania, Ivan Pliushch, Volodymyr Polyachenko, Vasyl Shemchuk, Serhiy Vasylenko, Oleksandr Klymenko, Oleksandr Omelchenko, Ihor Palytsia and Oleksandr Slobodian.

All the non-faction deputies – Ihor Rybakov, Inna Bohoslovska, Vasyl Kyseliov and Taras Chornovil – also voted for the new prime minister.

237 deputies had voted for the resolution dismissing Yulia Tymoshenko as prime ministers: all the Party of Regions and Community party deputies and 19 deputies from the Lytvyn Bloc. Verkhovna Rada Speak Volodymyr Lytvyn did not vote.

The same seven deputies from BYuT who voted to dismiss Yulia Tymoshenko voted for Mykola Azarov. There were some changes in the OU-PSD vote: three of the deputies had noted voted to dismiss Yulia Tymoshenko’s government: Vasyl Shemchuk, Serhiy Vasylenko and Oleksandr Klymenko.

Today, March 11, Verkhovna Rada chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn announced the creation of the “stability and reform” coalition that includes 235 deputies, including all the deputies from the Party of Regions, Communist Party and Lytvyn Bloc, and 16 deputies from other parliamentary groups, including BYuT.