The majority of Ukrainians who joined the survey in the Diya app about the fate of the March 8 holiday voted to leave it as a holiday, the voting results show..

So, out of more than 2.1 million Ukrainians who joined the survey, over 1.3 million Ukrainians, I am 61.9%, voted to leave this day as a day off. At the same time, 703 thousand. of app users, or 32.8%, think March 8 should be a working day. Another 110 thousand Ukrainians could not decide on this issue.

In response, one of the authors of the bill, which proposes to change some weekends and working days in Ukraine, Marina Bardina noted that the deputies would propose leaving International Women's Day on March 8 as a day off, but renaming it in accordance with the practice of the United Nations as International Rights Day.

Judging by the comparative table to the bill, promulgated by the deputy, it is also proposed to make May 8 a day off - the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, and to exclude May 9 - the Day of victory over Nazism in World War II from the list of holidays and non-working days.

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Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada registered draft law No. 9009 “On Amendments to the Labor Code of Ukraine on the Establishment of Ukrainian Holidays”, which proposes to cancel some holidays and weekends, and add new ones. Among the holidays that are proposed to be abolished, including March 8.