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Thirty-eight women (8,5% of the total number of Members of Parliament) are going to work in the parliament of the sixth convocation. In the last parliament female representation made up only 8% (36 female MPs). 
It is the second time parliamentary polls have been held proportionally in Ukraine. Under the Constitutional amendments of December 2004, the parliament’s role has grown significantly and its functions have undergone some changes.
In addition to various privileges and bonuses our representatives enjoy, they have great opportunities to work not only in Ukraine, but also abroad. Though it is the President of Ukraine who is in charge of foreign policy in general, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs deals with specific assignments and directions of it, Members of Ukraine’s Parliament do their best to show themselves to the world and to have a good look at it in return (and why not, they do it on preferential terms).
“There is no serious document, based on which the Communists should have supported the candidacy of Chernovetsky. Leonid Mykhailovych (Chernovetsky - DEPUTAT) has had a strictly anti-Communist position concerning a number of issues: he renamed streets, dismantled monuments to Lenin, actually destroying everything that was connected to the Soviet epoch”.
“Today, Ukraine has reached a particular limit of state building in its development. It has stopped, as the existing ideas of politicians on how to develop the country are exhausted. It seems to me further development of the country is possible in a traumatic way, through some highly acute conflict”.
We are normal people and understand very well that when I need to go to a doctor or to a gentlemen’s room, for instance, and a vote is being held at that moment, I can ask my neighbor to push a button instead of me.
The president has lied again. During the talks on the loose coalition I stressed we could not trust him. Now our political force has gone into opposition and we will work to create the institution of opposition.
