The head of the parliament, Andrei Parubiy, announced on Tuesday, September 19, that Maxim Mikitas and Alexander Suprunenko had joined the parliamentary group. As Parubiy explained at the morning plenary session of the parliament, both Mikitas and Suprunenko were elected as self-nominees in single-member districts and were non-factional deputies.

Now in the Will of the people there are again 19 deputies, which is a necessary minimum for the existence of a faction or group in the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation,.

Recall, the number of persons in the deputy group can not be less than in the smallest fraction that was formed during the first session. The smallest faction of the Fatherland during the first session was 19 deputies, thus, in the current convocation of the parliament, the faction or deputy group should consist of at least 19 parliamentarians.

As reported URA-Inform, previously the deputy group The will of the people excluded from its membership of Alexander Onishchenko, and the parliamentarian Sergei Melnychuk himself left her ranks. After that, the group left 17 people's deputies, which is the reason for its dissolution.