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Ukraine's parliament votes to lift deputies' immunity
Summary
A look back at the vote of 3 September 2019, days after the ninth Verkhovna Rada convened and a new government took shape.
What did Ukraine's newly seated parliament choose to do first? On 3 September 2019, the Verkhovna Rada approved a bill providing for the removal of immunity from people's deputies.
The vote came only days after the ninth convocation of the Verkhovna Rada held its first sitting on 29 August 2019. At that sitting, deputies elected Dmytro Razumkov as head of the Rada. Oleksiy Honcharuk was appointed Prime Minister, and Ivan Bakanov was named head of the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU.
Seen in sequence, the days from 29 August to 3 September 2019 brought the opening of the new parliament, the formation of its leadership and a government, and then approval of the bill on deputies' immunity. The bill's approval on 3 September 2019 was the step that changed the legal protection enjoyed by members of the chamber.
