Member of Parliament Oleh Barna says that he has left the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction at Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada.
“Five minutes ago I left the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction,” Barna said at a meeting of the Rada committee for procedural rules on Dec. 11.
The Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in turn said that he had been expelled from the faction at their initiative.
“The faction had a meeting to expel Oleh Barna,” head of the faction’s press service Taras Pastushenko told Interfax-Ukraine.
An Interfax correspondent has reported that parliamentarian Oleh Barna (Petro Poroshenko Bloc), who is collecting signatures for the draft resolution of no-confidence in the government, brought a bunch of roses for the prime minister to the rostrum and tried to drag the prime minister from it.
MPs clashed at the rostrum and the prime minister’s speech was interrupted for several minutes.
Head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Yuriy Lutsenko said that Barna had behaved outrageously and apologized for the incident. Then he said that the faction would not expel Barna.
The Rada committee for procedural rules and ethics stripped Barna of the right to attend the next five parliament meetings.
