Zelensky appointed his new representative in the Verkhovna Rada

By decree No. 823/2023, President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed the MP from "Servant of the People" Halyna Mykhailiuk as his representative in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian Parliament).

She will replace Fedor Venislavskyi, who was dismissed at the beginning of December. Then Venislavskyi explained that he agreed with the president because he was busy with military projects and did not have time.

Mykhailiuk is the deputy head of the Councilʼs committee on law enforcement and co-chair of the parliamentary groups in the Council on interparliamentary relations with Japan and Australia. She is also a member of the delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Presidentʼs Commission on Legal Reform. Previously, she was an adviser on the preparation of laws of the Consultative Mission of the European Union in Ukraine from 2015 to 2019.

• The representative of the president in the Verkhovna Rada is a person who facilitates the interaction of the state leader with the parliament. She participates in the meetings of the Rada, its permanent and temporary commissions, presents proposals and draft laws of the president, analyzes controversial laws and decisions of the parliament for the president.