TV program Dear Deputies broadcasted on 13 July 2015

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.

In the twenty-fifth episode of the TV program broadcasted on 13 July, you'll know how Oleh Liashko upholds party discipline. Do declarations reflect real finances of MPs? Ukrainian and foreign experience. Feofaniia Hospital: do ATO participants really receive treatment there, or it's available only to deputies and officials? Finally, some good-to-know terms – can MPs explain a term „sequestration“?

Series in detail:

- Do declarations reflect real finances of MPs?

Journalist-investigator Denys Bihus tells about Ukrainian practices and drawbacks in legislation.

- The rubric „How do they do?“ tells about international practices of income declaration and ways of fighting political corruption in the USA, Germany, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Belarus and in European Parliament.

- The rubric „Partyology“ – a frank conversation with Deputy Head of the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko faction, Andrii Lozovyi.

What have five assistants of Oleh Liashko done to get into a party list? Did the leader of Radical Party know about potentially unlawful actions committed by the Aidar battalion commander Serhii Melnychuk while being on the front, when he invited him to his team? Which methods does the leader of Radical Party use to uphold party discipline?
„He's shouting, swearing, and beating! When someone misconducts he can lift his hand against him,“ - tells Andrii Lozovyi, interviewed by journalists of the Dear Deputies.

- „In committees“ - we'll visit a meeting of the Committee on Judicial Policy and Justice.

Who delays adoption of amendments to the Constitution and will the Committee manage to gather?

- In the rubric „Parliamentary mathematics“- exclusive information about the Feofaniia Hospital.

135 ATO veterans have received treatment in the Feofaniia Hospital since 2014. It's less than 1% of the total number of patients (approximately 14,000 per year). In 2014, only 26 MPs of Ukraine received treatment there. The Hospital has spent 3.27 million UAH or 1.4% of its total budget. Feofaniia has 226 million UAH budget for 2015. As of June 2015, 5 servicemen wounded in the ATO area are receiving treatment in the hospital.

- Finally, the rubric „Vokabula“ – can MPs explain a term „sequestration“?We are going to ask this MPs Yevhenii Daidei (People's Front faction), Yurii Bublyk(non-faction) Andrii Hordieiev (PPB faction), and Viktor Pynzenyk (PPB faction).