Premier demands BYT MP Lozinsky sign statement of resignation

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT) MP Viktor Lozinsky should give up his deputy mandate.

"I demanded that this MP sign a statement on the termination of his deputy powers," she said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

Tymoshenko said that the BYT would demand at an extraordinary meeting of the parliament on Friday that Lozinsky give up his deputy mandate and that it would vote to take away his deputy immunity.

She confirmed that her eponymous bloc would also demand that the question of taking away deputy immunity from all MPs be considered at that meeting.

As reported, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko has tabled in parliament a query to give the consent to institute criminal proceedings against Lozinsky, as well as arrest and take him into custody.

The Prosecutor General's Office earlier opened a criminal case against Lozinsky on charges of intentionally inflicting serious bodily harm.

On June 16, Valeriy Oliynyk, a 55-year-old resident of Kirovohrad region, died as a result of an incident involving Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko MP Viktor Lozinsky, Holovanivsk District Prosecutor Yevhen Horbenko, and the chief of the district department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Mykhailo Kovalsky.