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 ninth series of the program that was broadcasted on 16 March covered:

- State financing of parties: will parties be independent of oligarchs?

As it's already known, budget financing of political parties is one of the tasks under the Coalition Agreement. MP Serhii Leshchenko (Petro Poroshenko Block) is the head of the working group which prepares the corresponding bill. Dear Deputies have visited the second meeting of the working group. Besides civic activists, representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Central Election Commission, and the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine were also present on the meeting. Is the system ready to revolutionary changes?

- The rubric "Parliamentary mathematics" will tell about MPs-shirkers.

There are 16 MPs in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine who didn't prepare any inquiries for these 100 days, didn't take the floor on plenary sittings, and didn't participate in preparation of bills. Nadiia Savcehnko (Batkivshchyna) is one of such MPs. She's illegally detained in pretrial detention center in the Russian Federation and, therefore, cannot implement her duties as an MPs. Per-faction division:

Having watched a series of the Dear Deputies about one of the most costly privileges that MPs have – Parliament's vehicle fleet and taxi service –Head of the Committee on Preventing and Combating Corruption Yehor Soboliev (Samopomich) has initiated its liquidation. It's worth to mention that the state budget for 2015 includes UAH 40 mln for maintenance of Parliament's cars.

- "Parliament behind the scenes": we will visit the closed Parliament's library and see which books MPs read. Besides that, we'll see the most outstanding parliament libraries in the world.

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