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 seventh series of the program that was broadcasted on 2 March covered:

What is the difference between lobbying and corruption?

The audience will get information on how and why lobbying is regulated in the USA, the EU, and Ukraine.

The rubric "Parliamentary mathematics" will tell about the worst "shriekers" of the VIII convocation.

Having analyzed the data of written and electronic registration of MPs on plenary sittings from 27 November 2014 to 24 February 2015, we've chosen three MPs in each category.

Top 3 MPs who don't register in written from:

  1. Andrii Biletskyi, non-faction MP, former battalion commander of the Azov battalion;
  2. Dmyrto Yarosh, non-faction MP, is in the hospital lately after being wounded in Eastern Ukraine;
  3. Mykhailo Dobkin, Opposition Block.
  4. Serhii Kliuiev, non-faction MP;
  5. Kostiantyn Zhevaho, non-faction MP;
  6. Yukhym Zviahilskyi, Opposition Block.

Top 3 MPs which have the least registered in the Rada electronic system:

Parliamentary tourism: Let’s compare Ukrainian and foreign experience.

A tour to parliamentary premises in Kyiv, Berlin, London and Budapest: how to get into, how much the excursion cost and some words about local peculiarities.

You can watch previous series of the Dear Deputies here.

 

 

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The Civil Network OPORA - is non-governmental, non-political and financially independent all-Ukrainian network of activists. We united to enhance public participation in the political process by developing and implementing models of citizen participation in the activities of state and local governments.

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