Ukraine's Parliament approved on Thursday the adjustment in the legislation on Prosecutor's office, reducing the prosecutors in the country to 10 thousand people by 2018 from the current fifteen thousand. Such a decision at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada supported 228 parliamentarians with the necessary minimum of 226 votes.

"The total number of employees of bodies of Prosecutor's office is fifteen thousand people with a decrease in the number of prosecutors from 1 January 2018 to 10 thousand people ", - said in the text of the law.

the elected officials also came to a compromise and have secured the norm on the procedure for the election of the so-called anti-corruption Prosecutor. Legally his election will deal with the competition Commission of eleven people, of which 7 are elected by the Parliament and 4 the Council of prosecutors.

Against the amendment were made by the deputies from the faction " Samopomich ", which insisted that one of the members of the Commission delegated the anti-corruption Committee of the Parliament, but the proposal did not find support in the Parliament.

in protest Against the adoption of these amendments to the law on Prosecutor's office, the elected officials 2 factions - the "Radical party" and "Self" - left the Parliament hall.

"We, the fraction of" Radical party ", in protest, leave the hall of the Parliament, and we believe that what is currently there, Is a profanation of the fight against illegal activities of officials. The real fight against illegal activities of officials has not occurred and is not. This manual control of the anti-corruption Prosecutor, " said the leader of the faction Oleg Lyashko.

sections: Politics