Ukrainian MP explained why sleeping during Rada meetings is normal
When a technical break is announced in the Verkhovna Rada or nothing interesting happens, deputies may well fall asleep right in the meeting room.
People's Deputy Alexander Kirsh spoke about this on the talk show “The People Against,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
During the program, fugitive Crimean Maidan activist Elizaveta Bogutskaya asked the deputy a question why he often sleeps during meetings in the Rada.
“There are a lot of photos about you on the Internet where you sleep at meetings. So you visit everything, but you sleep all the time. Tell me, have you ever thought about leaving parliament and resigning, resigning your mandate? Because if everything is so bad, then why are you there?” – Bogutskaya asked.
“Thank you for the question. A frank question, a frank answer. First, when these pictures are taken, you need to know exactly when they are taken. There are very often situations in parliament when it is not a sin to close your eyes. This is, firstly, when there is a technical break - when the deputies are sitting in their places, but no one goes anywhere, since the break is only 5-10 minutes, and pictures are taken at the request of my political opponents.
There is a second situation - discussion of edits. When it happens, there are a maximum of 100 people in the hall, 226 are needed. Discussion of amendments leads to nothing, because the amendment is adopted when the law is adopted. This is an abstraction. I have such an organism that when nothing happens, it turns off. It seems to me that this is a normal reaction of the body,” the deputy noted.
A Ukrainian MP explained why sleeping during parliamentary sessions is normal.