The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, worked for less than an hour at an emergency meeting on Friday.
Before closing the parliament meeting, Vice Speaker Mykola Tomenko reported on the results of a conciliatory council meeting.
He said that the sides had failed to reach compromise, as the coalition had not supported the Regions Party’s proposal for the urgent consideration of a bill increasing social standards. Tomenko said that Regions Party and Communist Party MPs, who requested a 30-minute break to agree their positions, in turn, had ignored the coalition’s proposals on the parliament’s further work on Friday.
Tomenko said that it had been agreed that all parliamentary factions and the government would delegate their representatives to an updated working group to review the bill on a rise in social benefits.
“The group will hold a meeting on Monday, September 7,” he said.
He also expressed hope that compromise on the issue would be reached at a parliament meeting on Tuesday, September 8.
Two bills on a rise in the minimum wage and the living wage, which were submitted by Regions Party MPs Mykhailo Papiev and Oleksandr Peklushenko, were earlier registered in parliament.
