Ukrainian Parliament dismisses MP Maryana Bezuhla from National Security Committee
Pravda Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) has dismissed MP Mariana Bezuhla from the post of Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence.
Source: MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak on Telegram
Quote from Zhelezniak: “The parliament dismissed Mariana Bezuhla from the post of deputy [chairman] of the Defence Committee and even a member of the committee. There were 252 votes in favour of this decision.”
Details: He also said that the MP “was transferred to the [Parliamentary] Committee on Foreign Policy”.
Background:
- On 5 January 2024, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence recommended that MP Mariana Bezuhla be removed from her position as Deputy Chair of the Committee.
- On 10 January, Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk ended the parliamentary session early after a group of MPs blocked the rostrum demanding that the issue of Bezuhla’s dismissal be put on the agenda. He stated that Bezuhla would be dismissed from her position as deputy head of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence only after a decision by the conciliation board of parliamentary factions and groups.
- On 5 July, MP Fedir Venislavskyi, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, said he would file a complaint against Bezuhla with the State Bureau of Investigation, as he believed she had disclosed information from a closed meeting of the committee.
- On 17 July, Bezuhla resigned from the Servant of the People faction.
- On 17 September, the MP submitted a letter of resignation from her position as deputy chair of the Defence Committee and asked to be transferred to the Foreign Policy Committee.
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