Current Parliamentary Factions
It is possible for 15 or more deputies to form a parliamentary faction (a lawmaker can join only one faction; the chairman and his two assistants cannot head factions of deputies).
The current parliament elected on 28 October 2012 started its tasks on 12 December 2012
| Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | Vacant | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party of Regions | Fartherland | UDAR | Freedom | Communists | Non-affiliated | ||||
| End of previous convocation | 195 | 97 | DNP | DNP | 25 | 31 | 348 | 102 | |
| Begin | 185 | 101 | 40 | 37 | 32 | 43 | 438 | 12 | |
| December 12, 2012 | 208 | 99 | 42 | 36 | 32 | 27 | 444 | 6 | |
| April 4, 2013 | 207 | 95 | 42 | 36 | 32 | 32 | 444 | 6 | |
| Latest voting share | 46.6% | 21.4% | 9.5% | 8.1% | 7.2% | 7.2% | |||
| Note: The parties United Centre (3 seats), People's Party (2 seats), Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko (1 seat) and Union (1 seat) did not form there own faction. Their deputies did not join any faction besides 1 deputy of People's Party who became member of the Party of Regions faction in December 2012. | |||||||||
Read more about this topic: Ukrainian Political Parties
Famous quotes containing the word current:
“The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)