Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that the current parliament cannot be dissolved.
“I believe that [the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada] is
impossible. I have proposed that MPs pass a decision about
self-dissolution, if they do not want to work, though this is not a
lawful way either… Only the president has the right to disband the
parliament six months before the end of his tenure,” Lytvyn said at a
press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
He said MPs had to seek a legal way out of the existing situation.
The speaker also said that there would be no Rada meeting on
Tuesday, as MPs had failed to reach agreement at a conciliatory council.
At the same time, MP Hanna Herman of the Regions Party said that her
faction members might stay in the session hall and block the rostrum
until the end of the day. Herman noted that the Verkhovna Rada is
supposed to work until 1800 on Tuesdays.
