MP: Voting for the law on mobilisation will be tomorrow
10 April 2024 14:32
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Today, the Verkhovna Rada plans to consider amendments to the mobilisation bill. The vote will take place tomorrow. This was stated by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, according to Komersant ukrainskyi 
“Most likely, there will be no vote on mobilisation today. There will be amendments. Most likely, the vote will take place tomorrow. Today we will consider the amendments. This is very important, because if we remove the violations of the Constitution, the term of service and other things, it will be a different story,”
– goncharenko said.
As previously explained by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, the final number of amendments to the draft law on mobilisation was 4,294.
“But they did a trick. All the amendments were rewritten. That is, everything that was taken into account went into the “committee amendments”,
– he said.
Zheleznyak stressed that only 31 amendments from the Committee were taken into account. The remaining 4263 amendments are in the status of “rejected”.
He added that today the Verkhovna Rada will first consider the rejected amendments, and tomorrow – the taken into account ones.
Honcharenko said that the Rada had decided to invite Chief of the Army Oleksandr Syrskyi, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anatoliy Bargylevych and Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Sodol to speak before the start of consideration of the law on mobilisation.
315 MPs voted in favour of the decision.
There was also a proposal to invite Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov. But there were not enough votes – only 138.
Honcharenko suggested that the draft law was supported by the Servant of the People faction, former MPs from the OPFL and Holos factions, as well as some majoritarian MPs.
It should be noted that the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security approved the text of the draft law on mobilisation for the second reading. The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, published the text of the proposed draft law with amendments.
The document was submitted to the Parliament on 10 April.
The law will enter into force one month after the day following its publication, except for those paragraphs that relate to amendments to parts four and five of Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine “On Mobilisation Preparation and Mobilisation” – they will enter into force eight months after the day following the publication of this Law.
Draft law on mobilisation
on 7 February, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a new draft law on mobilisation without proposals from the relevant committee. It is expected to be voted on as a whole at the end of February, and the draft law may enter into force in April.
The draft law proposes, among other things, to introduce summonses through the conscript’s electronic cabinet. Other innovations include lowering the conscription age to 25 years, setting the demobilisation period at 36 months, introducing voluntary mobilisation for convicts, restrictions on evaders, banning civil service without military training, etc.
Read more about the new document in our article: Government submits new draft law on mobilisation: main provisions.
