Two MPs’ resignations spoil majority

At the Verkhovna Rada’s session on Friday, Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk read a statement that deputies Ihor Rybakov (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) and Yuriy But (Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc) are leaving the parliament’s governing coalition. Without the two votes, the Our Ukraine-Tymoshenko Bloc coalition is one seat shy of a simple majority, at 224 (for details see our note as of June 6).