Rada continues consideration of the law on mobilisation
11 April 2024 11:15
The Verkhovna Rada continued to consider draft law No. 10449 on mobilisation in the second reading. Today, the parliamentarians are to consider 31 amendments and vote on the bill as a whole, Komersant Ukrayinskyy 
reports.
“The Rada is starting to work, the law on mobilisation is being extended,”
– wrote MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak of the Voice party.
Later, he noted that during the first voting less than 300 MPs supported the draft law.
“Well, even with a strong mobilisation of votes, there are still only 282 on the signal board,”
– he wrote in his post.
Yesterday, MPs considered the rejected amendments to the draft law. According to Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of the Voice party, the parliamentarians, far from being in full force, continued to work until late at night.
Zheleznyak said that all the rejected amendments out of 4,294 amendments to the draft law on mobilisation had been passed.
“It took 11 hours. There were 30 MPs in the hall until the end. Now there is a break until the morning, then in the morning a “motivational” speech by the military… then the 31st vote for the 31st amendment to the law… and the last vote for the bill as a whole,”
– Zheleznyak wrote.
At the meeting on 11 April, MPs are to consider the committee’s amendments and vote for the draft law in the second reading.
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 come 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.
on 10 April, MPs began considering the document in the session hall in the second reading, and are scheduled to vote for the draft law on 11 April.
Read more about the new document in our article: The Government has submitted a new draft law on mobilisation: main provisions.
