TV program Dear Deputies is a joint project of the OPORA, Hromadske TV, and the First National TV Channel. 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 third series of the program that was broadcasted on 2 February covered:
- “buttonpushers” coming back to the Verkhovna Rada. Why MPs postpone establishment of touch button voting units? Interview with developers of the Rada-4 voting unit.
- One of the oldest parliamentary parties AUU Batkivshchyna showed its worst result ever on the last elections. However, office of the party in the center of Kyiv looks like a fortress saying: elections come and go, but the Batkivshchyna remains. A representative of the Batkivshchyna party Ivan Kyrylenk, who was MP in each convocation of the Parliament starting from the second one tells about the history and ideology of the party in the rubric "Partyology".
- The rubric "Soviet" covered secrets of the Mariinskyi Park. Did you know that hundreds of Ukrainian warriors who died in battles for independence were buried in Mariinskyi Park in front of the Verkhovna Rada premises on the beginning of the last century? However, authorities of the Soviet Union made every effort to vanish the memory of those years, and made a pantheon of its heroes in front of the Parliament.
- Experience of parliamentarism in Great Britain. What to do to become MP? To be rich? To be famous? To have influential friends among politicians? Yes, if we are talking about Ukraine. And no, if we are talking about the Great Britain. How do British parties decide who will be a candidate in the next elections? They use a transparent system of selection resembling entrance examinations to a reputable university. The rubric "How do they do?" covers these questions.
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