Parliament elects Olena Kondratiuk as deputy speaker

Olena Kondratiuk from the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna Party has been elected as Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of the ninth convocation.

A total of 318 MPs voted for a relevant decision, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

Among other candidates for the post of deputy speaker were Mustafa Dzhemilev from the European Solidarity party, Nestor Shufrych from the political platform Opposition Platform - For Life and Iryna Konstankevych, who was nominated by the deputy group For the Future.

As Ukrinform reported, earlier the parliament elected MP from the Servant of the People party Dmytro Razumkov as speaker, and Ruslan Stefanchuk was elected as first vice speaker.

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