TV program Dear Deputies is a joint project of the OPORA, Hromadske TV, and the First National TV Channel, the First National TV channel and USAID's program the RADA. This weekly program provides the audience information about activities and inaction of MPs, their salaries, offices, internal matters, soviet spirit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and international experience of parliamentarism. This program is goaled to explain complicated things in a comprehensible way and make people smile if there is a reason.

The thirteenth series of the program that was broadcasted on 13 April covered:

- Privileges of MPs: why do special booking offices for MPs still exist?

- In the rubric "Parliamentary mathematics": law-making activeness rating of majoritarian MPs, divided into oblasts.

Which regions do the most active and the most passive MPs represent?

It turns out that the most active majoritarian MPs were elected in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast (286 bills registered), Kyiv (283) and Kyiv oblast (199). The least active majoritarian MPs were elected in Chernihiv oblast (21), Kirovohrad oblast (15), and Chernivtsi oblast (15).

- "How do they do?": about the electoral system used for parliamentary elections in Georgia, and preferences that Georgian MPs have – reporting from Kotais.

- Do MPs know the ethical rules for MPs established by the Law? You will know the answer from the rubric "Vokabula".

We will also talk to Dmytro Shlemko (Batkivshchyna), Anatolii Matviienko (Petro Poroshenko Block), Viacheslav Konstantinovskyi (People's Front), Volodymyr Parasiuk (non-faction), and Yehor Firsov (Petro Poroshenko Block),

- 14 cadences for two: old timers in the Parliament - who are they?

Yukhym Zviahilskyi was elected to the Parliament eight times.

Besides that, Viktor Pynzenyk (Petro Poroshenko Block) and Ivan Kyrylenko (Batkivshchyna) who were elected to the Parliament 7 times each will reveal us the secrets of such success.

 

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