Published: September 4, 2024 2:46 pm
Author: RT
Mariana Bezuglaya will remain deputy chair of a parliamentary defense committee despite an ongoing conflict with army commanders
Ukrainian lawmakers declined to support a motion to remove MP Mariana Bezuglaya from her role as deputy chair of the parliamentary committee on national defense on Wednesday.
The vote came amid a major overhaul of the Ukrainian cabinet, as MPs voted on resignations tendered this week by several ministers. The proposal to oust Bezuglaya was meant to discipline her for a long record of criticizing the military and disclosing to the public information embarrassing to the armed forces.
According to MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, just 205 votes were cast in favor of the measure, below the threshold of 226 required for it to pass. He released a breakdown of the vote on social media, complaining that the faction of Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party did not even support the “weak” punishment, which would have kept the MP on the committee as a regular member.
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Bezuglaya was originally part of the faction of Servant of the People but declared herself independent in July.
