This was announced at the plenary session on Thursday, September 8, by the first vice-speaker of the parliament, Adam Martynyuk.
The new faction includes 15 deputies, among them, in particular, Volodymyr Bondarenko, Volodymyr Filenko and the President's representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Serhiy Soboliev (faction leader).
Thus, the NSNU faction has shrunk to 43 deputies and has become the fourth largest in the parliament after the communist faction (56 deputies), the Party of Regions faction (52 deputies) and the People's Party faction (44 deputies).
As Korrespondent.net reported, the day before, the faction of the People's Movement of Ukraine (14 deputies) split from the NSNU.
Thus, as of today, the number of the 13 parliamentary factions and deputy groups is as follows: CPU – 56 deputies, PR – 52, NP – 44, NSNU – 43, BYuT – 41, SPU – 26, UNP – 22, SDPU(o) – 20, "United Ukraine" – 20, "Democratic Ukraine" – 19, PPPU – 15, PRP – 15, NRU – 14.
38 of the 425 elected people's deputies remain outside factions