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 aimed to explain complicated things in a comprehensible way and make people smile if there is a reason.
You will know from twenty-seventh series of the TV program, broadcasted on 27 July, whether elections in district #205 were democratic, about by-elections in USA, Great Britain and Singapore, and about assistants to MPs, their duties, functions and fees. We will ask our MPs what a conciliation meeting is.
- Assistant to an MP: who is he, what's he living on and which duties he has.
How many assistants an MP can gave at the same time? Which duties does an assistant have? Which state institutions and parliamentary premises an assistant to MP can access with his accreditation? Finally, which duties do right-hand assistants have - we'll ask an assistant working for the third convocation in a row - Maryna Kotliar.
- The rubric "How do they do?" We'll talk about by-election in Singapore, USA and Great Britain. For example, an MP seat in Great Britain or Ireland can become vacant due to the bankruptcy of an MP, malfeasance, mental illness, or death. In such cases, by-elections are held. The constituency is taken care by a representative of an adjacent one until a new representative is elected. Representatives of non-parliamentary parties have a chance to get into the parliament through a by-election to British Parliament. For example, a representative of UK Independence Party, which advocates the UK leaving the EU, has won a seat in 2014 October by-election. Duhlas Karsvel became the first MP in the party history.
- Rubric “Vokabula”: MPs will tell what a conciliation meeting is according to the Article 73 of the Law of Ukraine on the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. We'll ask Zlata Ohniievych and Aliona Kosheleva (Radical Party faction), Oleksii Poroshenko (Petro Poroshenko Block faction),Natalia Korolevska and Yurii Miroshnychenko (Opposition Block faction), and Hennadii Kryvoshei (People's Front faction).
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